Virtually all are believed held for anti-apartheid activities.
South African women have been instrumental, through their active participation in anti-apartheid activities, in contributing to the burgeoning, albeit fragile, democracy there.
These papers, mainly weeklies, report on anti-apartheid and other activity that is often scantily covered in the regular press.
Mr. Breytenbach's anti-apartheid activities did, in fact, have a personal motive.
In the 1960s, Finkelstein was imprisoned for his anti-apartheid activities.
It was revealed in later years that the police special branch, with direct assistance from the university, had compiled a substantial file on Streek's anti-apartheid activities.
As a result of her anti-apartheid activity, she was arrested by the security police in 1985 and detained at Pollsmoor Prison for more than three months.
Mr. Chikane, who has been detained for his anti-apartheid activities, said the conference gave blacks hope that whites could be part of their struggle.
From 1975 to 1976 Sisulu was detained for her anti-apartheid activities.
As a Politics student at the University of Cape Town, he became involved in anti-apartheid activities.