• Pollsmoor Prison, officially known as Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, is located in the Cape Town suburb of Tokai in South Africa. Pollsmoor is a maximum...
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    state. Mandela served 27 years in prison, split between Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. Amid growing domestic and international...
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    transferred from the maximum security prison on Robben Island, a small island in Table Bay, to Pollsmoor Prison in Tokai, Cape Town. From there, Mandela...
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  • Centre Pollsmoor Prison Moses Sithole serial killer Westville Prison Steyn, Daniel (24 August 2023). "Analysis: The troubled history of Mangaung prison". GroundUp...
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    KwaZulu-Natal Pollsmoor Prison in Tokai, Cape Town, Western Cape Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, Western Cape Westville Prison at Westville,...
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    Cape Town and after four weeks, allowed to see family, and held at Pollsmoor Prison as they awaited trial. After Lee's father brought him a copy of the...
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  • Cape Town and after four weeks, allowed to see family, and held at Pollsmoor Prison as they awaited trial. After Lee's father brought him a copy of the...
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    Democratic Front who met with Nelson Mandela prior to his release from Pollsmoor Prison on February 11, 1990. Prior to the 1994 elections, Gandhi was a member...
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  • Gregory on two occasions. The first was during his imprisonment in Pollsmoor Prison: "Often, Winnie's visits were overseen by Warrant Officer James Gregory...
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    Sizwe. He spent 27 years in prison, much of it in a cell on Robben Island. The rest of his incarceration was in Pollsmoor Prison, on convictions for crimes...
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  • for obstruction of justice. On 8 June 2018 he was transferred from Pollsmoor Prison to the Drakenstein Correctional Centre, where he will serve his sentence...
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    the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. The author researched prison gangs based in Pollsmoor Prison, resulting in the books The Number and the later Nongoloza's...
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  • sentence. (p. 159) Mandela describes prison time on Robben Island and Pollsmoor Prison. His 28-year tenure in prison was marked by the cruelty of Afrikaner...
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    following the Rivonia Trial, in which he was held at Robben Island and Pollsmoor Prison. Following his release in 1990, he was elected to serve as a member...
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  • political prisoner in Robben Island since 1964, was transferred to Pollsmoor Prison where he received special permission marry his common-law wife Dideka...
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  • However, both sentences were reduced to prison terms. Lehnberg served 11 years of a 20-year sentence in Pollsmoor Prison outside Cape Town. Choegoe's sentence...
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  • prisoner that year. His prison number remained 466/64 until 1982, when he was transferred to Pollsmoor Prison and given the prison number 220/82. "Prisoner...
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  • indefinitely under Section 29 of the Internal Security Act. Awaiting trial in Pollsmoor Prison, he and the others mounted a hunger strike which received public attention...
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    Western Cape prisons. This still holds true in prisons such as Pollsmoor prison. However, the balance of power now varies from prison to prison over time...
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    process, Barnard arranged for Mandela to be moved off Robben Island to Pollsmoor Prison in 1982. This provided Mandela with more comfortable lodgings, but...
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    Freedom Charter Treason Trial Rivonia Trial Robben Island Pollsmoor Prison Victor Verster Prison Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa Liliesleaf...
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  • was convicted of murder in 2017, and is currently incarcerated at Pollsmoor Prison. Mthethwa, a native of Durban, graduated from the Michaelis School...
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    Party government after spending 26 years each in Robben Island and Pollsmoor Prison; and their release which also included Wilton Mkwayi after spending...
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  • his sentence on Robben Island, though he was later transferred to Pollsmoor Prison. His wife, Albertina Sisulu, was frequently under banning orders –...
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    kidnapping. According to the report he was sentenced to three years in prison for theft but other charges had been dropped as he had been judged mentally...
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    for prison management. Although not legally binding, the SMRs provide guidelines for international and domestic law for citizens held in prisons and other...
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  • Goodbye Bafana (category Films set in prison)
    The first is during Mandela's recollection of his incarceration in Pollsmoor Prison: "Often, Winnie's visits were overseen by Warrant Officer James Gregory...
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  • in prisons and offers recommendations for solving post-apartheid gang violence. The author writes that he spent nine months of research at PollsMoor Prison...
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    moments of my life." Nelson Mandela was still being imprisoned in Pollsmoor Prison after being transferred from Robben Island in 1982. Prior to leaving...
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    English-speaking South African soldiers returning from World War II. Nearby is Pollsmoor Prison, where Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners were incarcerated...
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