The archival record dates a letter to the Commissioner of Prisons to 14 March 1965. Mandela used formal correspondence to contest the administration of political imprisonment and advocate for prisoners’ rights. A study of media access on Robben Island documents this letter in the South African National Archives. The letter belongs to a longer struggle over what the apartheid state could conceal about prison conditions.
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What happened to Mandela’s mother in September 1968?
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The Foundation chronology records her death and the denied funeral visit.