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Remembering Robben Island

By Jacques , Claassen

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN
9781770077980, 9781920545710, 9781920545727, 1920545719, 1920545727
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
9 MB (9340362 bytes)
Pages
66 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Prisons;Prisons--South Africa--Robben Island;Histo

Description

Nestled in the embrace of Table Bay, not far from the sweeping sands of Bloubergstrand, Robben Island is a haven for sea birds and seals. For centuries, it was also a harsh place of banishment and isolation. This rocky outcrop so close to Cape Town, surrounded by the icy, pounding Atlantic surf that made escape virtually impossible, became a convenient prison for anyone the authorities deemed unsavoury - from lowly convicts and rebellious Khoekhoen to lepers, from members of the Indonesian nobility and imams thought to be inciting mutiny in the East Indies to regal Xhosa chieftains, and later.

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