Comments on: Prison Number 4 http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:43:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Black Looks http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-22762 Black Looks Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:59:19 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-22762 [...] Was launched at Constitutional Hill [Number 4 courtyard] on Saturday with speakers Raymond Suttner, Phumla Dneo Gqola and, Nomboniso Gasa. [...] [...] Was launched at Constitutional Hill [Number 4 courtyard] on Saturday with speakers Raymond Suttner, Phumla Dneo Gqola and, Nomboniso Gasa. [...]

]]> By: Black Looks http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-17221 Black Looks Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:42:45 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-17221 [...] At the Old Fort prison complex in Constitution Hill, Rita Marley opened the Bob Marley photographic exhibition amongst the tiny isolation cells and small exercise, shower and meal area of the prison where Mandela was imprisoned in the 1960s. The cells are tiny, just arms length, hardly enough space to lie down for a grown man. A powerful exhibition of Marley’s life in a place that was at the heart of his protest music. [...] [...] At the Old Fort prison complex in Constitution Hill, Rita Marley opened the Bob Marley photographic exhibition amongst the tiny isolation cells and small exercise, shower and meal area of the prison where Mandela was imprisoned in the 1960s. The cells are tiny, just arms length, hardly enough space to lie down for a grown man. A powerful exhibition of Marley’s life in a place that was at the heart of his protest music. [...]

]]> By: Vagabond Realities http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-4038 Vagabond Realities Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:35:15 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-4038 I read 'Long Walk to Freedom' a while ago and caught a glimpse of what it was like in South Africa during the apartheid days. Imprisonment, torture, racial discrimination...all this, deplorable, deplorable...it's a shame that as humans, we have such ugliness in us...from Auschwitz to Robben Island. I read ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ a while ago and caught a glimpse of what it was like in South Africa during the apartheid days. Imprisonment, torture, racial discrimination…all this, deplorable, deplorable…it’s a shame that as humans, we have such ugliness in us…from Auschwitz to Robben Island.

]]> By: Magoo http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3652 Magoo Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:58:13 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3652 Shoo, Webgirl, you need to receive healing for what happened to you then. That is terrible - and if some kind of restorative healing could happen for you ... I don't know what to say. Magoo Shoo, Webgirl, you need to receive healing for what happened to you then. That is terrible – and if some kind of restorative healing could happen for you … I don’t know what to say.

Magoo

]]> By: Sokari http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3608 Sokari Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:12:11 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3608 Magoo@ so far I have only passed through a couple of times on my way to the back of the building - I will be at BTM on Tuesday so will go to the museum then. Webgirl@ Like Aba Boy I WAS lost for words - but now I have your powerful words which will stay with me and I will think of them when I go there next Tuesday. Magoo@ so far I have only passed through a couple of times on my way to the back of the building – I will be at BTM on Tuesday so will go to the museum then.

Webgirl@ Like Aba Boy I WAS lost for words – but now I have your powerful words which will stay with me and I will think of them when I go there next Tuesday.

]]> By: Webgirl http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3606 Webgirl Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:59:16 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3606 Yes I was there and whenever I think about it - start shaking. Yes I was there and whenever I think about it – start shaking.

]]> By: Magoo http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3605 Magoo Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:53:24 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3605 Webgirl - your poem is SO POWERFUL Were you in the Women's Jail of No 4? The curators here (I work at Behind The Mask who have offices here - it is a mixed use site) are collecting the names of women and adolescent girls who were held here. The Women's Jail exhibition is quite powerful in the middle atrium part in my view - Sokari did you see that part or was your tour just The Fort and No 4 the men's section? Webgirl – your poem is SO POWERFUL

Were you in the Women’s Jail of No 4? The curators here (I work at Behind The Mask who have offices here – it is a mixed use site) are collecting the names of women and adolescent girls who were held here. The Women’s Jail exhibition is quite powerful in the middle atrium part in my view –

Sokari did you see that part or was your tour just The Fort and No 4 the men’s section?

]]> By: Webgirl http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3576 Webgirl Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:02:12 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3576 Yea I was there Xmas time between 1972 - 1974 Number 4 I hate you You robbed me of my adolescence Go wash your face You shitty face I hope you never come back You're just a thorn in my mind Yea I was there Xmas time between 1972 – 1974

Number 4 I hate you
You robbed me of my adolescence
Go wash your face
You shitty face
I hope you never come back
You’re just a thorn in my mind

]]> By: Ababoy http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3575 Ababoy Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:20:52 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3575 I am lost for words! I am lost for words!

]]> By: Beauty http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3571 Beauty Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:09:27 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/10/prison_number_4.html#comment-3571 In the 1940s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#Auschwitz_II_.28Birkenau.29" rel="nofollow">Auschwitz II (Birkenau)</a> is the camp that many people know simply as "Auschwitz". It was the site of imprisonment of hundreds of thousands, and of the killing of over one million people, mainly Jews, but also large numbers of Poles, Gypsies, and homosexuals. In the 1950s Alex La Guma was a political prisoner in Number4, the same like for like type prison yet mainstream media only pick up on the jewish story. In the 1940s Auschwitz II (Birkenau) is the camp that many people know simply as “Auschwitz”. It was the site of imprisonment of hundreds of thousands, and of the killing of over one million people, mainly Jews, but also large numbers of Poles, Gypsies, and homosexuals. In the 1950s Alex La Guma was a political prisoner in Number4, the same like for like type prison yet mainstream media only pick up on the jewish story.

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