The men on Robben Island – archive, 10 Aug 1964

10 August 1964: The composition of the present prison colony reveals most clearly whom the Nationalist Government regards as most dangerous to the apartheid State Seven miles off Cape Town, in the heart of Table Bay, lies Robben Island, the Alcatraz of South Africa, home of some 1,500 long-term prisoners. A waterless, arid patch of land, surrounded by shark-inhabited water, it has been used by South African Governments in the past alternately as a place of exile for defeated African chiefs, as a