CHAPTER 6Robben Island
(1964-1970)
- Sent to Robben Island
- Other political prisoners
- Bad conditions
- Porridge
- Quarry → hard labour
- Study
- 6 month visits & letters
- Winnie and Albertina
- Eddie Daniels → Liberal Party
- 3,000 African political prisoners
- small cell
- The ‘University’
- 1965 → more prisoners
- Madiba → ‘chief’
- September 1966 → Verwoerd is killed
- Worse conditions
- 1968 → Family visits
- Mandela’s mother dies
- Winnie was arrested
- Thembekile dies