Draft of speech Struggle (Image 2)

freedom fighter to be sent to Robben Island. Autshumayo has another distinction in history none of us can justly claim. I will deal with this later. 5 The surveyor-general of the Cape Colony in the last century, Edgar Stow, tells the story of the San – Bathwa, Basatwa – who were cornered against a deep cliff by the Voortrekkers in their plundering trek northwards. The battle lasted for the whole day – Continue. 6. KLM Over these 3 centuries many freedom fighters were brutally killed either through torture or outright murder. But I am not aware of any who was offered freedom without any humiliating conditions attached, who chose death rather than accept mercy from the enemy. 7. Then we have Sheik Abdurahman Mantura who fought the Dutch in Batavia also in the 17th Century. When he was captured he was sent to RI [Robben Island] in 1743 and where the Moslem community erected a shrine in his honour. Throughout the period we spent there Moslem groups