New Age2.png This Day in History January 5, 1965 Four members of the ANC, sentenced for their political convictions, Mac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo, arrived on Robben Island on January 5, 1965, to serve out their sentences after their conviction. They were all taken to B section where ANC stalwarts such as Nelson Mandela, Elias Motsoaledi and Walter Sisulu among others were being held after the Rivonia Trial. There were suspicions by Maharaj and the leadership of the ANC that Raymond Nyanda was sent to prison as a planted spy of the apartheid government. Robben Island was used as a prison to house political prisoners and common law prisoners in the 1960s. Over the course of time, several hundred political prisoners from all political stripes and organisations fighting against apartheid and colonialism passed though its prison doors. Many others imprisoned on the island died before their release. After undergoing scrutiny by political prisoners, Nyanda received news that he had "won" his case against his conviction on appeal and that his sentence was shortened. He was removed from Robben Island by the authorities, while Maharaj and Masondo were released in 1976. Chiba was released in December 1982. - <http://www.sahistory.org.za> www.sahistory.org.za From: <http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/05012016/epaperpdf/16.pdf> http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/05012016/epaperpdf/16.pdf -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
