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Title: People protest for the release of political prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1991, Apartheid, Demonstrations, Robben Island (South Africa), Hunger strikes
Description: People protest for the release of political prisoners, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16116

Title: Prisoner reunited with family, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: "It's still unreal" ... Arcadia High school teacher Mr Neville Van Der Rheede hugs his wife Carol for the first time in over a year after being discharged by the Supreme Court yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17930

Title: Oral history interview with Achmad Cassiem, a political activist and prisoner on Robben Island [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso, Political activists--South Africa--Biography, Pan Africanist Congress--History, South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History, Government, Resistance to--South Africa,
Description: The interviews in this collection focus on the life history of Robert Sobukwe, teacher, lecturer, lawyer, secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) Branch in Standerton and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Interviewees include Achmat Cassiem (activist and Robben Island prisoner), Benjamin Pogrund (author of his autobiography), Charmaine van Tonder (Robert Sobukwe's neighbour) and Dinilesizwe Sobukwe (Robert Sobukwe's son). Themes include: the controversy regarding his burial; the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC); reflections on his funeral; his life on Robben Island; Sobukwe as a father; the Sharpeville Massacre and his work at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) . This sub-collection originated as research for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians award 2010., Pin13.01b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 01:03:32 min. ; interview 1 of 5
Identifier: islandora:19439

Title: Parents of prisoner, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Feeling shattered - Katie and William De Klerk with a picture of daughter Venetia, 19, whose "home" for the next 12 months is Pollsmoor Prison.
Identifier: islandora:17910

Title: Prisoners arrive in the harbour, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Detainees and house arrest.
Identifier: islandora:17916

Title: People protest for the release of prisoners and justice for Jeffrey Benzien, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Political prisoners, Demonstrations
Description: People protest for the release of prisoners and justice for Jeffrey Benzien, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16113

Title: People demand the release of political prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem), Demonstrations
Description: People demand the release of political prisoners, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16092

Title: Protesters hold banner that reads, "What is happening in our prisons?" Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Apartheid
Description: Protesters hold banner that reads, "What is happening in our prisons?" Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16370

Title: Former Robben Island prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Former Robben Island prisoners at Table Bay harbour soon after their release this morning. The three, from left, Mr Theophilus Cholo, Mr Maqina Mpanza and Mr Sandi Sijake, spent 15 years on Robben Island after they were convicted in 1973.
Identifier: islandora:17906

Title: Pollsmoor Prison March, Cape Town, 1985
Subject: Student protesters, Demonstrations, Police brutality, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Police attack youths early in the morning on the day of the Pollsmoor Prison March. United Democratic Front (UDF) leaders had called upon people to march to Pollsmoor Prison in August 1985 to demand the release of Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners. The students were also protesting against the state's education system, which offered blacks inferior education.
Identifier: islandora:890

Title: People hold a candlelight vigil for those in prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Political activists, Communities
Description: Thousands of township residents, like this family, last night turned off their lights and held a candlelight vigil in front of their homes, shops and garages in sympathy with all those in detention, those killed during the unrest and as a protest against the state of emergency. Some people had candles inside their cars and hooted as they drove. A spokesman for the Athlone People's Action Committee said last night that the call for the vigil had been 90 to 100 percent successful.
Identifier: islandora:16245

Title: Protest for release of prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Youth, Demonstrations
Description: Protest for release of prisoners, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17922

Title: People demand the release of political prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem), Demonstrations
Description: People demand the release of political prisoners, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16091

Title: Student protest: "Free all political prisoners" banner, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, University of Cape Town, Apartheid
Description: Student protest: "Free all political prisoners" banner, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16387

Title: Prisoners released, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Prisoners released, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17923

Title: Women protest for the release of political prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: Women protest for the release of political prisoners, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16109

Title: Robben Island prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Detainees and house arrest.
Identifier: islandora:17918

Title: Prisoner released, Cape Town
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: After more than eight weeks in detention Mr Edwin Angless walked unexpectedly into his family's Pinelands home today. Here, he is greeted by his mother, Mrs Louise Angless, and his sister, Teresa, 17.
Identifier: islandora:17904

Title: People protest for the release of political prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1985, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: People protest for the release of political prisoners, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16108

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