“That night was pure, total fear,” he said. Christie was a scientist but his used his expertise and education to hunt the nuclear weapons the Nationalist government was developing.Īfter his arrest in 1979 Christie was tortured be being forced to stand for a night and a half, only allowed to sit if it was to confess to being a spy. Renfrew Christie is the epitome of the perseverance exhibited by so many imprisoned activists. We would fight inside as we fought outside,” Mandela wrote in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, adding that the racism and repression of white warders against black prisoners were the same as harassment outside the prison walls. “We regarded the struggle in prison as a microchosm of the struggle as a whole. “At different times many of our comrades were detained, not charged with any offense, but detained under the dreaded security laws of that period for the purpose of interrogation and torture,” said Russel Christopher, a former member of the underground military wing of the ANC.īut the police state didn’t dampen the fight. Thousands of men, women and students were arrested by the government under restrictive apartheid policies, like banning political organizations like the African National Congress or implementing laws restricting where people could be based on their race. While Mandela is the most famous prisoner he is far from the only one. Some of his health problems like sensitivity to light have been associated with his treatment there, like spending all day breaking stones in the hot sun. Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison at Robben Island, describing it as “the harshest, most iron-fisted outpost in the South African penal system” in his autobiography A Long Walk to Freedom. Several laws during that time were used as justification for arresting freedom fighters, such as banning political organizations like the African National Congress or implementing pass laws, which restricted where people could be based on their race. It was a place you were sent to disappear.Īpartheid was a period of intense racial segregation in South Africa. It was not on any maps of Cape Town, despite being visible from high altitudes in the area. Robben Island was a prison for political dissidents. Above it all, a now-rusted guard tower looms as a symbol of the oppression that brought people to this place. Past the pile of stones there is a dark cave, where prisoners spent their lunch hour as a respite from the blistering sun reflecting off the limestone. The quarry is overgrown now, seen mostly by tourists on a bus tour of the island. The stones were placed a memorial placed by former prisoners during a reunion in 1995. ![]() Articles: Key challenges facing student affairs: an international perspective (Birgit Schreiber) An overview of critical issues in the student affairs profession: a South African perspective (Llewellyn MacMaster) Academic student affairs: bridging the gap for student development and success (Martin Mandew) Student success and as the number one affair in student affairs: a structural inequality outlook (Matete Madiba) Back to basics: selected views on factors that prevent access in higher education (Lullu Tshiwula and Ncedikaya Magopeni) The ethical challenges of a student counselling professional: when does discretion become permissible? (Hanlé Kirkcaldy) The place of social work as a support service for tertiary students (Zethu Mkhize) and, Towards an asset-based model: a critical reflection on student material support with special reference to clienthood/citizenship tension (McGlory Speckman).In the limestone quarry on Robben Island there is a pile of stones. It aims to fill the gap in student affairs literature from South Africa since the creation of a single, desegregated department of higher education. ![]() This volume is a collection of papers from various authors with student affairs experience in South Africa who express their views on various topics, from different perspectives. ![]() Perspectives on student affairs in South Africa The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
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