Discover how sport became a powerful tool for resilience and self-organisation among political prisoners on Robben Island, as Dr Vanessa Mitchell reveals the transformative role of athletic activities ...

Mosiuoa Lekota was imprisoned with former South African President Nelson Mandela on Robben Island.

Speaking at the memorial service of late Congress of the People (COPE) leader Mosiuoa Lekota, African National Congress (ANC) veteran Tokyo Sexwale says laughter kept struggle stalwarts alive while in ...

1. Introduction: prison as a source of politics -- 2. Politics and prison: a background -- 3. Resistance for survival -- 4. Resistance beyond survival -- 5. Prisoner politics and organization on ...

Lekota was among many political prisoners on Robben Island who sacrificed their lives to fight racial segregation and oppression in pre-democratic South Africa.

AFA copy 39088019764646 is a gift from Janet Stanley. Robben Island-best known as the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for eighteen years-has been a place of harshness and brutality; its ...

Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island, by Ashwin Desai is a slender volume that contains a gigantic book. Time seems to bend, slow down, expand and contract as we read it, as the eons of ...

Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island, by Ashwin Desai is a slender volume that contains a gigantic book. Time seems to bend, slow down, expand and contract as we read it, as the eons of ...

The first mention of an attempted swim from Robben Island to the mainland is found in a short article in the Cape Times of 1876, neatly filed in the South African National Library. One can only assume ...