Writing from Robben Island on behalf of colleagues, Mandela asked the Minister of Justice either to release imprisoned political activists or to grant them treatment due to political prisoners. The letter states that the request was a claim of rights, not a plea for mercy, and describes isolation within single cells. Published by the ANC in 1978, it records a collective demand against the apartheid state’s refusal to recognize political prisoners as such.
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What happened to Thembekile Mandela in July 1969?
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Thembekile died in a car accident and Mandela could not attend the funeral.