1. Introduction: prison as a source of politics -- 2. Politics and prison: a background -- 3. Resistance for survival -- 4. Resistance beyond survival -- 5. Prisoner politics and organization on ...

The group compared Israel's detention and justice system to apartheid South Africa "It's the first time I'm going to visit a jail freely," German activist Yasemin Acar, a member of the Global Sumud ...

Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island, by Ashwin Desai is a slender volume that contains a gigantic book. Time seems to bend, slow down, expand and contract as we read it, as the eons of ...

Discover how sport became a powerful tool for resilience and self-organisation among political prisoners on Robben Island, as Dr Vanessa Mitchell reveals the transformative role of athletic activities ...

South Africa's former defence minister and anti-apartheid campaigner Mosiuoa Lekota has died at the age of 77, his party said. Lekota died after a "period of illness", the Congress of the People (Cope ...

ROBBEN ISLAND, South Africa (Reuters) - A small but much-prized soccer trophy on display in a cell of Robben Island prison is a reminder of how football touched the lives of the activists locked up ...

AFA copy 39088019764646 is a gift from Janet Stanley. Robben Island-best known as the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for eighteen years-has been a place of harshness and brutality; its ...

Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island, by Ashwin Desai is a slender volume that contains a gigantic book. Time seems to bend, slow down, expand and contract as we read it, as the eons of ...