page_title: Robben Island
section_title: List of former prisoners held at Robben Island
hierarchical_section_title: Robben Island / List of former prisoners held at Robben Island
caption_attribution_description: English: Moturu Kramat, Robben Island
context_page_description: Robben Island is an island near Cape Town in South Africa. It was a high-security prison where Nelson Mandela was held captive for 18 years. He and the other political prisoners were forced to work at the limestone quarries on the island. They were not allowed to talk or do anything but work.
  Robben Island is both a South African National Heritage Site as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
context_section_description: Autshumato, one of the first activists against colonialism
  Dennis Brutus, former activist and poet
  Patrick Chamusso, former activist of the African National Congress
  Laloo Chiba, former accused at Little Rivonia Trial
  Eddie Daniels
  Jerry Ekandjo, Namibian politician
  Nceba Faku, former Metro Mayor of Port Elizabeth
  Petrus Iilonga, Namibian trade unionist, activist and politician
  Ahmed Kathrada, former Rivonia Trialist and long-serving prisoner
  Langalibalele, The King of the Hlubi people
  John Kenneth Malatji, former activist and special forces of ANC
  Njongonkulu Ndungane, later to become Archbishop of Cape Town
  Mosiuoa Lekota, President and Leader of the Congress of the People
  Mac Maharaj, former accused at Little Rivonia Trial
  Makana, one of the activists against colonialism
  Nelson Mandela, African National Congress leader and former President of South Africa
  Gamzo Mandierd, activist
  Jeff Masemola, the first prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment in the apartheid era
  Amos Masondo, former Mayor of Johannesburg
  Michael Matsobane, leader of Young African Religious Movement
  Chief Maqoma, former chief who died on the island in 1873
  Govan Mbeki, father of former President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki
  Wilton Mkwayi, former accused at Little Rivonia Trial
  Murphy Morobe, Soweto Uprising student leader
  Dikgang Moseneke, Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa
  Sayed Adurohman Moturu, Muslim exiled to the island and died there in 1754
  Griffiths Mxenge, a South African Lawyer and member of the African National Congress
  Billy Nair, former Rivonia Trialist
  M. D. Naidoo, a South African lawyer and member of the African National Congress
  John ya Otto Nankudhu, Namibian liberation fighter
  John Nkosi
  Nongqawuse, the Xhosa prophetess responsible for the Cattle Killing
  Maqana Nxele, former Xhosa prophet who drowned while trying to escape
  John Nyathi Pokela, co-founder and former chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress
  Joe Seremane, chairperson of the Democratic Alliance.
  Tokyo Sexwale, businessman
  Gaus Shikomba, Namibian politician
  Walter Sisulu, former ANC Activist
  Stone Sizani, ANC Chief Whip
  Robert Sobukwe, former leader of the PAC
  Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, Namibian politician
  Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa and leader of the African National Congress
  Achmad Cassiem
  Setsiba Paul Mohohlo, former APLA unit commander
  Micheal Ludumo Buka, former ANC Activist
  Kgalema Motlanthe, South Africa's first Pedi president
  John Aifheli Thabo, an ANC political activist
  Ezra Mvuyisi Sigwela, an ANC political activist
  Oliver Tambo, African National Congress president
caption: The Muslim Moturu Kramat shrine on Robben Island
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