5TH ANNIVERSARY OF NELSON MANDELA'S RELEASEì REUNION OF EX-POLITICAL PRISONERS OF ROBBEN

Record ID: 892634

  • Title: 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF NELSON MANDELA'S RELEASEì REUNION OF EX-POLITICAL PRISONERS OF ROBBEN
  • Date: 10th February 1995
  • Summary: 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF NELSON MANDELA'S RELEASEì REUNION OF EX-POLITICAL PRISONERS OF ROBBEN
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  • City: CAPE TOWN
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 95FEB10V03
  • Story Text:5TH ANNIVERSARY OF NELSON MANDELA'S RELEASEì
    REUNION OF EX-POLITICAL PRISONERS OF ROBBEN ISLANDì

    06.12.05 CU SIGN ON BOAT "Reunion"
    06.15.25 BOAT LEAVING HARBOUR FOR ISLAND
    09.11.05 ON ROUTE ISLAND WS OF TABLE MOUNTAIN
    09.38.29 PASSING SHIP WITH EX-PRISONERS
    09.49.50 COMING IN TO DOCK AT ISLAND
    10.05.50 ESTABLISHING SHOT ENTRANCE TO PRISON
    10.23.45 BOAT WITH EX-PRISONERS DOCKING
    10.26.13 WALKING ISLAND
    10.36.12 INT STEVEN LESCH WARRANT OFFICER
    10.37.02 TREATMENT FAIR? "According to the facts,ì
    no."
    10.37.13 "Probabaly inhuman...can't even say itì
    was inhuman because at that time it was allowedì
    when they were here It probably was normal."
    10.37.58 DIFFICULT FOR US WARDENS TO ADAPT TOì
    THESE NEW CIRCUMSTANCES BECAUSE SOME OF US AREì
    FROM THE OLD SCHOOL - BUT THEY ARE TREATED VERYì
    FAIR MUCH MORE THAN THEY WERE BEFORE

    10.41.52 BOAT APPROACHING
    10.43.01 BOAT DOCKING
    10.44.43 EX-PRISONERS GETTING OFF
    10.46.29 CARL NIEHAUS ANC MP [Afrikaner clergi &ì
    ex-prisoner from Pretoria maximum security prison]ì
    DISEMBARKING
    10.52.14 COMMENTS CARL NIEHAUS - COMING TOGETHERì
    TO REMEMBER WHAT HAS HAPPENED ALSO TO COMMITì
    OURSELVES TO THE FUTURE AND TO MAKE SURE THATì
    THOSE IDEALS WE ENDED UP IN PRISON FOR WILL BEì
    ACHIEVED
    10.52.39 WILL BE A SHRINE TO THE TENACITY & THEì
    STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLE HERE & AGAINST APARTHEID
    11.01.55 INT SERGEANT BUMPER SMIT [USED TO WORK INì
    KITCHEN WHEN THEY WERE ON ISLAND 4 YEARS UNTILì
    THEIR RELEASE]
    11.02.35 VERY GOOD RELATIONSHIPS
    11.03.04 MORE FRIENDS THAN INMATES PRISONERS
    11.05.51 PRISON GATE
    11.13.15 FENCES
    11.17.34 PLAQUE READING "Embedded in these stonesì
    you will find the pain of our struggle the sorrowì
    of losses and the foundation of our victory
    Unveiled by president of RSA MR NR Mandela on theì
    occasion of the Robben Island reunion 10/2/95"
    11.41.03 WALKING IN SEAWATER
    11.43.22 COMMENT - WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO BEì
    OUTSIDE...
    11.43.55 ONCE WE CAME OUT IT WAS A PRISON WARDENì
    WHO MAYBE HAD A SOFT HEART AND HE TOOK US OUT WEì
    WALKED IN FACT TO THE SEA
    11.44.28 I THINK ONLY ONE PERSON DARED TO SWIM
    UNFORTUNATELY THE WARDEN WAS CAUGHT BY THEì
    COMMANDING OFFICER
    11.45.20 PONDERING GOOD MEMORIES & BAD ONES - SAMEì
    WAY OR OTHER WAS ALSO FRUITFUL BUILDING OURì
    CHARACTERS ENDURANCE & THE COMRADESHIP THAT WEì
    EXPERIENCED HERE
    11.46.25 I WAS HERE SINCE 1987 AND I WAS RELEASEDì
    IN 1991 - INITIALLY IT WAS FOR HIGH TREASON THENì
    THEY CHANGED IT TO TERRORISM
    11.51.10 EX-PRISONERS WALKING ROCKY BEACH
    12.25.03 ARRIVAL MANDELA
    12.34.11 HAVING LUNCH IN TENT
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