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The name Robben Island is synonymous with South Africa's history.
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While in prison, he turned disadvantage into advantage, and produced a book entitled, Learning from Robben Island, which is a collection of essays ranging from political economy, organisational development to an analysis of the apartheid state.
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While in prison, he turned disadvantage into advantage, and produced a book entitled, Learning from Robben Island, which is a collection of essays ranging from political economy, organisational development to an analysis of the apartheid state.
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While in prison, he turned disadvantage into advantage, and produced a book entitled, Learning from Robben Island, which is a collection of essays ranging from political economy, organisational development to an analysis of the apartheid state.
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As a former resident himself of a maximum security prison, namely Robben Island, Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane finds the commissioner's suggestion incompatible with the worthy steps that have been taken by our new government in seeking to recognise the human rights of all people, even those whom society, through the courts, have deemed to have done wrong.
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Jordaan calls Robben Island "a place of dreams crushed, dreams renewed".
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Prime Minister Gujral also visited various sites associated with South Africa's long and painful struggle against racial discrimination such as Robben Island, the Hector Peterson memorial in Soweto and the tomb of Rev. John Dube in Durban.
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Today, Monday i think, we went to Robben Island which is where Nelson Mandela was held as a prisoner for 18 years.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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He had been arrested for political activities and tried in 1967 before an all-white South African court, then sentenced to twenty years on Robben Island, the notorious South African prison redoubt.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He had been arrested for political activities and tried in 1967 before an all-white South African court, then sentenced to twenty years on Robben Island, the notorious South African prison redoubt.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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