A prison officer drove Mandela to Pollsmoor’s gardens, where he spent an hour looking at fields. The Foundation’s diary-based record preserves a small, ordinary moment inside a life governed by surveillance and restriction. A garden could offer space and movement, yet even this limited access depended on the discretion of prison officials.
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