Robert Sobukwe and PAC history
- ZA RMST OHRP-1
- Reeks
9 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects
Robert Sobukwe and PAC history
Part of Scrap Books from Robben Island
The scrapbook was compiled by Robert Sobukwe whilst held on Robben Island. The cover page is signed by Robert Sobukwe, together with the text 'SOUTH AFRICA - LOCAL'.
It includes news paper cuttings relating to details of Sobukwe's conditions of imprisonment on Robben Island, with reference to a parliamentary debate on the 'No Trial' Bill (later called Sobukwe Bill), as announced by B.J. Vorster, the Minister of Justice, which stipulated that Sobukwe could be detained further, after his three-year sentence expired; a photograph of the house in which Sobukwe was held, an ex-Navy barrack, out of sight of the other prisoners on Robben Island; articles and photographs about his wife Veronica and children; Kaizer Matanzima and Transkei politics; race relations in South Africa; articles relating to PAC arrests; POQO; (Potlako) Leballo letters from Basutoland, leading to the arrest of two women, Cynthia Lichaba and Patricia Lethala; NUSAS congress at the University of the Witwatersrand; Apartheid laws; arrests of ANC MK leaders at Liliesleaf farm in Rivonia; Philip Kgosana's attack on Patrick Duncan; scholarship offered to Robert Sobukwe; leadership crisis in PAC.
Part of Scrap Books from Robben Island
The scrapbook was compiled by Robert Sobukwe whilst held on Robben Island. The cover page is signed by Robert Sobukwe 'RMS Robben Island, 1963' and 'South Africa: 2nd book'.
The newspaper cuttings in this scrap book cover relate issues of Nationalist Party view points from the newspaper Die Burger; administration of justice in South Africa; Hoover Institute bursary for Rand Daily Mail reporter Benjamin Pogrund; politics and the church; Darius 'Ndaru' Dhlomo, former soccer captain marrying a white woman in Holland; calls to train non-whites as artisans; UN Security Council resolution for an arms embargo against South Africa; four man held in detention after Rivonia Liliesleaf farm raid, escape from Marshall Square including Arthur Goldreich, Harold Wolpe, Mosie Moolla, and Abdulhai Jassat; how Apartheid isolates South Africa; James Kantor to be tried under Sabotage Act, with photographs of Rivonia trialists; Miriam Somana suing her former husband Brian for divorce, on the ground of adultery with Winnie Mandela; Dr. Dan Phule Kunene awarded Carnegie Grant; Potlako Leballo reported alive in Basutoland; artist Gladys Mgudlandlu selling 43 of her paintings in Cape Town gallery; how solitary confinement affects prisoners, by Professor Kurt Danziger; case of Rev. Arthur Blaxall; Nana Mahome wanting PAC office in New York; Vorster's attacks on NUSAS; 'V.I.P. detainees' Robert Sobukwe and Hazel Goldreich.
Local histories, Activism in the 1970s to beginning 1990s
The scope of the interviews mainly covers the activism in the 1980s to pre-1994. The interviewees were closely involved in underground armed operations, political rallies to show resistance against the Apartheid state in the area of Graaff-Reinet.
Active member of Graaff-Reinet Community Organisation and was detained under the Internal Security Act.
Daughter of Maraai Werthime and active in the Graaff-Reinet Community Organisation. She was detained several times.
Group interview of 3 members of the South African Student Movement (SASM) in the Graaff-Reinet area, being Sabelo Booi, Whitey Banzana, and Zibekile Mangaliso.
Former member of the Special Branch, who resigned from the Police in the 1980s and joined the UDF.
A Reverend in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa. He was a member of the regional executive committee of the UDF in the Eastern Cape.
The members of this group, Mxolisi Mbilatshwa, Alfred Vuyisile Mdwane, David Mongezi Cebeni and Mzwandile Archibald Ntswayi went into exile in 1985. They were trained in underground operations for the ANC's Umkhonto We Sizwe, but were also active in youth actitivities.