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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 178–202.
Published: 01 May 2023
... traveled to Cape Town for the Robben Island Reunion. The first day was held at the former maximum-security prison, the site of subjugation and struggle for many of the participants. The day culminated with a creative happening, as the former prisoners enthusiastically smashed rocks in the Limestone Quarry...
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Figure 1. Aerial view of Robben Island, with Cape Town six miles in the distance. The prison buildings are on the left near the jetty. South African Tourism, Wikimedia Commons.
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Figure 3. Reunion participants on the SAS Outeniqua traveling to Robben Island. Credit: Graham Goddard, UWC-Robben Island Museum Mayibuye Archives.
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Figure 6. The Limestone Quarry on Robben Island, where political prisoners were put to work. Table Mountain can be seen in the distance, in the upper left of the image. Witstinkhout, Wikimedia Commons.
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (97): 143–154.
Published: 01 January 2007
... conflicts surrounding postapart-
heid South Africa’s efforts to develop historical sites that recapture both the history
of violence and structural racism and the multiple struggles against it. Her richly
illustrated and provocative chapters on the Voortrekker Monument, Robben Island,
and District...
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Figure 4. Five former political prisoners exploring the prison during the Robben Island Reunion. Courtesy of Chris Ledochowsk. Copyright remains with the photographer.
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Figure 10. Former political prisoners marking and breaking stones during the quarry event. Credit: Graham Goddard, UWC-Robben Island Museum Mayibuye Archives.
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Figure 2. SAS Outeniqua , a South African Navy sealift and replenishment ship used to transport 1,200 reunion participants between Cape Town and Robben Island. Col. André Kritzinger, Wikimedia Commons.
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Figure 5. Former prisoners, guests, and the media during the reunion lunch on Robben Island. MP Ahmed Kathrada and President Nelson Mandela are conversing in the center of the photo. Courtesy of Chris Ledochowsk. Copyright remains with the photographer.
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Figure 12. President Nelson Mandela and MP Ahmed Kathrada, the two chief government and ANC officials at the reunion. Credit: Graham Goddard, UWC-Robben Island Museum Mayibuye Archives; composite by Andor Skotnes.
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2023
... is composed of images taken by the Argentinean political prisoner Alicia Sanguinetti and her brother Ricardo on the last day of her captivity, known as the Devotazo, May 25, 1973. Finally, Andor Skotnes details the actions of former Robben Island prisoners who reunited on the fifth anniversary of Nelson...
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Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (78): 208–209.
Published: 01 October 2000
... at the University of Toronto and has written on
the history of crime, deviance, gender, and capital,punishment. The
article appearing in this issue, co-authored with Tina Loo, arises from
their joint project (with collaborator Clifford Shearing) on prison history
tourism at Port Arthur, Robben Island...
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Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (76): 249–250.
Published: 01 January 2000
..., the University of Cape Town and the
Robben Island Museum. He is the author of Write Your Own History.
His doctoral research was on the creation and contestation of public
national pasts in South Africa in the 1950s. ...
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (119): 247–249.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Robben Island. And while
Radical History Review
Issue 119 (Spring 2014) doi 10.1215/01636545-2644312
Reprinted courtesy of the South African Civil Society Information Service (sacsis.org.za), under the Creative
Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa License.
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Radical History Review (2001) 2001 (81): 94–112.
Published: 01 October 2001
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ing its own legacy projects, so far eschewing huge monumental structures and opt-
ing instead for practical, “living,” open museum sites. Robben Island, off Cape Town,
which housed many political prisoners under apartheid...
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (119): 161–177.
Published: 01 May 2014
...) Mayibuye Centre for History and Culture (later UWC – Robben
Island Mayibuye Archives) attracted overseas archives, including those of IDAF,
Irish and Dutch movements (plus tapes and papers of journalist Karel Roskam),
the Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Com...
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Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 47–57.
Published: 01 May 1990
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1857 to 25,916 in December 1858.
But this was not enough for Governor Grey. He brought char
ges of treason and cattle theft against more of the Xhosa chiefs, and
imprisoned them on Robben Island. He sent an armed force into
independent Xhosaland, and drove its starving people into exile...
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Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (78): 27–56.
Published: 01 October 2000
... Alcatraz, amidst
accusations of excessive brutality. Only when inmates were imprisoned
for their political beliefs, as was the case at South Africa’s Robben Island,
or punished unjustifiably for belonging to stigmatized ethnic, religious,
sexual, or racial groups, as occurred in Nazi death camps...
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Beyond Militarism and Terrorism in the Biotech Century: Toward a Culture of Peace and Transformation
Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 24–36.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., was barred
from entering the United States in May 2002 on grounds that he had a criminal record. His
crime was opposing apartheid and serving time on Robben Island.
17. On genocide and a summary of the evidence and judgments, see Arlette El...
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (119): 216–231.
Published: 01 May 2014
... sentence alongside Nelson Mandela
on Robben Island, Penguin published Mbeki’s account of the Pondoland uprising
and a forceful condemnation of the apartheid state’s Bantustan policy, The Peasants’
Revolt. Initially conceived as a handbook for ANC organizers, the book instead pro-
vided the first...
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