Former High Court and Electoral Court Judge Thumba Pillay formally donated a series of documents to the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s archives.
The documents include a letter written by Mr Nelson Mandela on Robben Island, after it was smuggled out of the prison by Mac Maharaj.
The letter, addressed to Judge Pillay’s legal firm, gave instruction to begin court proceedings against the apartheid government’s Department of Prisons, on the grounds of poor conditions in correctional facilities and the treatment of inmates.
Judge Pillay – who was highly active in the anti-apartheid movement – donated the letter and a series of legal documents to the Nelson Mandela Foundation for safekeeping, and said, “We need [the files] to be kept for posterity. It’s part of history and these are authentic documents of the conditions in prisons at that time.”
Source: The Nelson Mandela Foundation
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