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But there had been some rumors then, you know, there had been some rumors that we would end up locked [up], that we were going to end up in Robben Island, and all things like that. 42
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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It's not like those years when Mr. Mandela was still in Robben Island.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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He had been arrested for political activities and tried in 1967 before an all-white South African court, then sentenced to twenty years on Robben Island, the notorious South African prison redoubt.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He had been arrested for political activities and tried in 1967 before an all-white South African court, then sentenced to twenty years on Robben Island, the notorious South African prison redoubt.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He had been arrested for political activities and tried in 1967 before an all-white South African court, then sentenced to twenty years on Robben Island, the notorious South African prison redoubt.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Sexwale sits on Fifa's fair play committee and was one of the prisoners incarcerated on Robben Island who formed their football association during the apartheid era.
Sepp Blatter racism row intensifies after Rio Ferdinand's retort 2011
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He was sentenced to 18 years on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela had been imprisoned 12 years earlier.
Who is Tokyo Sexwale, subject of the Blatter-Ferdinand Twitter row? 2011
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From Robben Island prisoner to millionaire businessman and politician, Tokyo Sexwale is a symbol of black aspirations in post-apartheid South Africa.
Who is Tokyo Sexwale, subject of the Blatter-Ferdinand Twitter row? 2011
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She met Tuesday with anti-apartheid icon and former South African president Nelson Mandela, and continues her South Africa trip Thursday in the southwestern city of Cape Town and at Robben Island, where Mandela was jailed for 18 years.
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She met Tuesday with anti-apartheid icon and former South African president Nelson Mandela, and continues her South Africa trip Thursday in the southwestern city of Cape Town and at Robben Island, where Mandela was jailed for 18 years.
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