CHAPTER 6Robben Island

(1964-1970)

- Sent to Robben Island

- Other political prisoners

466/64

- 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