What went on in this wing for the prisoners on Robben Island…what were the rules?
… This is B section, where Mandela and all the leader figures of the struggle were kept … ANC, PAC, all different organizations, were kept here. Single cells. They isolated them from the main community section. We opened in the mornings at 7:00, then … the food came, till 8:00. People started cleaning their cells. They took their toilet buckets outside … at the back there is the section where they cleaned it and put it outside in the sun. Some of the people would start doing some rounds, around on the courtyard outside, they would walk in the mornings. In the afternoons … between 12:00 and 2:00, prisoners were locked up. After 2:00 … some prisoners would go and play tennis outside–table tennis, tennis in the courtyard. Mandela would work in his garden. He was always busy working in his garden … He would also sometimes take part in the activities outside in the yard, playing tennis … Tell me about Mandela and his garden. …[That was ] in Pollsmoor prison. We were fight
