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Special Report Transcript Episode 58, Section 2, Time 02:00Robben Island was a place where apartheid like in all prisons was carried out. Before we talk about the day to day human rights violations of individual prison warders the mere fact that you were black, your clothing was different as if the weather treated you differently. Your food was different, as if you became hungry in a different way. Notes: TRC testimony: Andrew Masondo (Former political prisoner) ■ THE HEARING The link between prisons and apartheid 22 From the early 1960s, with the introduction of detention without trial under the various versions of the General Law Amendment Act, prisons became an essential part of the apartheid system of control. The incarceration of political ... |