A prison official informed Mandela that his nephew, Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima, wanted to visit. The diary entry captures how even a family visit depended on official permission and could become a matter managed by prison authorities. Matanzima’s political role in the Transkei homeland system also made the family relationship part of a larger dispute over apartheid’s use of nominally independent homelands.
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