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Robben Island prison
2009.03.31
The guide was a former political prisoner in Robben Island.
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The guide was a former political prisoner in Robben Island.
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Differences between B-prisoners diet (Coloureds/Asiatics) and C-prisoners diets (Bantus).
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Differences between B-prisoners diet (Coloureds/Asiatics) and C-prisoners diets (Bantus).
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Nair was detained on 6 July 1963, and after spending 100 days in detention, charged with sabotage together with the head of Natal Command Curnick Ndlovu, Ebrahim Ebrahim, Natoo Barbenia, Erick Mthlali, and 14 others. He received a 20 year sentence on Robben Island which he served in the maximum security B. section with Mandela, Sisulu and others.
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Nair was detained on 6 July 1963, and after spending 100 days in detention, charged with sabotage together with the head of Natal Command Curnick Ndlovu, Ebrahim Ebrahim, Natoo Barbenia, Erick Mthlali, and 14 others. He received a 20 year sentence on Robben Island which he served in the maximum security B. section with Mandela, Sisulu and others.
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February 19, 2009.
In 1961, with the National Party in firm control and the passage of the Apartheid Act, Robben Island again began to be used as a political prison.
The conditions of the prison facilities at this time reached an all-time low. Sixty prisoners were crammed into a cell made to house twenty men. They were woken up at 5:30 every morning and forced to leap across the compound naked. There was a strip full cavity search every morning. Breakfast consisted of a cold cup of coffee and porridge. Men were forced to eat on their haunches. Guards were instructed to beat anyone whose butt touched the ground. During the day the prisoners were forced to do hard labor on the mainland. Jobs consisted of moving a mountain of dirt from one location to another and then back again. Deaths from starvation and disease were common, and deaths from beatings were even higher.
Robben Island was said to be Hell, a place of desolate banishment from which few returned. The prison was an institution that perpetuated segregation and racism. Hundreds of thousands died for the color of their skin and the tenor of their ideas. In 1991, with the free election of Nelson Mandela, Robben Island was officially closed forever.
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Human rights lose its parh so so many times,,, I love your last sentence;)
