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… we Sizwe  (MK).  Dlomo was sentenced to four years in prison which he served on Robben Island. While he was on the … of protest mounted by political prisoner against inhumane prison conditions. As a result, he was detained in solitary … age of 66. He is survived by his wife Bongekile and three sons.  …

… confinement for years during the 1970s. Moved from one prison to the next, she endured some of the worst forms of … so severe that she would scream from the pain in her prison cell for long periods on end. When her daughter, … for the Bible, and that they were allowed only a few letters or visitors. Typical of the government of that time, …

… restrictions of apartheid legislation. The couple had two sons: Mbekezeli Simon Mkize (born 1959) and Mafika Jeremiah … control movement but to provide a steady supply of cheap prison labour and to maintain the fiction that African people … maintained his dignity and connections with his family.   Letters from Prison While awaiting execution, Mkhize wrote …

… continued until the age of 82. She typed Wal’s many letters to the Guardian and Tribune newspapers editing these … her portable Olivetti typewriter for his many articles and letters in South African newspapers in the early 1960s. … defiance campaign. Isolated on her own in a large women’s prison, with warders creepily leering at her while she …

… between Rharhabe and his brother Gcaleka, who were the sons of King Phalo . (The people who submitted under a … and the merits of Xhosa custom. He wrote in the form of letters, announcements, articles, reports and lectures in … writing in isiXhosa. [59] During his time in Tokai Convict Prison, Isaac wrote six poems; the earliest isiXhosa prison …

… entire student body. After a month, the university sent letters to students telling them to re-register. The … other Black Consciousness organisations were banned. From prison Mokoena wrote to Lybon Mabaso that ‘Your silence is …

… American press. Reddy spent almost six months in Modderbee Prison in Benoni, Transvaal (now Gauteng) under the new … visits to prisoners were allowed. Reddy was released from prison on Boxing Day 1976 and served with a five-year banning … white English-speaking listeners, with hundreds of angry letters and columns featured in the English press. Reddy was …

… a conversation with one of them, asking him what he was in prison for. He was quite friendly and told me that he was … trained in routine administrative tasks, such as preparing letters acknowledging incoming correspondence. Cyril and I … correspondence were strict. The frequency of exchanges of letters and the maximum number of words which could be …

… who was of the same age as himself. She bore him four sons. In September 1888 Gandhi set sail for England, to … arranging meetings with politicians and addressing letters to newspapers. He also campaigned in India and made … the interest of one's own country and religion".Before the prison term was over  General Jan Smuts  sent him an emissary …

… found guilty and sentenced to a hefty fine and a suspended prison sentence. Later that year his citizenship was … both he and his wife. Telephone death threats, poison-pen letters and smear campaigns became a regular feature of their …

… Literacy The unbanning of the ANC and the release from prison of Nelson Mandela and other senior members of the … law. The agony of a mother is recorded in the desperate letters of appeal Nora Govender wrote to the President of …

… Image source Walter Albertina celebrate his release from prison in Soweto in 1989. Image source The Defiance Campaign … Albertina managed to sneak off to meetings. One of her sons, Lungi, assisted her as courier and driver to other … were confirmed communists. In a back and forth exchange of letters between Albertina, the Ministry of Justice and the …