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A political activist, he was half Mandela's age when he arrived on Robben
Island in 1964, the same year as Mandela. He was imprisoned there for ten
years.
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He first met Mandela while helping out at the law offices of Mandela and Tambo
in the 1950s. He later spent ten years with Mandela on Robben Island.
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He is the former head of the South African Intelligence Service and helped
arrange secret talks with Mandela on behalf of the government.
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Mandela's lifelong lawyer, friend, and a constant visitor throughout the prison
years.
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For a time he was a warder on Robben Island when Mandela was there. He later
became Mandela's warder at Pollsmoor Prison.
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They are three Madiba chiefs from Mandela's clan in the Eastern Cape region of
South Africa. They remember Mandela as a young boy.
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Cachalia is a friend and confidante of Mandela; Hodgson was an early communist
and one of Mandela's lifelong friends.
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He was South Africa's Minister of Justice under apartheid. In 1986 he
initiated secret talks with the imprisoned Mandela.
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He was South Africa's president from 1989-1994 and a co-recipient with Mandela
of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
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A political activist, she became Mandela's personal assistant
(1990 -1994) following his release from prison.
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An activist in South Africa's Communist Party since his youth, he was a
dedicated friend of Mandela and part of a committee which helped him during his
months undergound. Convicted in the Rivonia Trial, Kathrada was on Robben
Island from 1964-1989.
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During the first months of Mandela going underground in 1961, Kodesh, an ANC colleague, hid him
for nearly eight weeks in his one-room bachelor apartment in a white suburb of
Johannesburg.
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He has known Mandela since their days at the University College of Fort Hare
and was a leader with Mandela in the ANC Youth League. After the breakup of
Mandela's first marriage, he lived in Mandela's Soweto home for eight months,
sharing a bed with him.
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Eight years older than Mandela, he was a lifelong comrade and sometime ANC
adversary.
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She and her husband Ismail Meer were anti-apartheid activists and have been
close to Nelson,Winnie and the family for decades. At Mandela's request,
Fatima wrote his authorized biography, Higher Than Hope.
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He was a young member of the Black Consciousness Movement and in 1976 was sent
to Robben Island, where his cell was diagonally across from Mandela's.
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A British journalist, he has known Mandela since the 1950s when he was editor
of the South African black magazine Drum. He is the author of the
1999 authorized biography, Mandela.
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An activist since high school days, he was in the ANC underground movement and
spent twelve years on Robben Island.
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Mandela's lifelong friend, confidante,. mentor and fellow prisoner on Robben
Island. He was imprisoned there for 25 years.
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He collaborated with Mandela on his autobiography, Long Walk To Freedom,
taping approximately 75 hours of interviews and conducting over 30 others. He
was with Mandela in South Africa for most of 1993, and during the election of
1994. Stengel is Senior Editor at Time Magazine.
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He became personal chef to Mandela when he was moved from Robben Island to
Victor Verster Prison in 1988.
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She is the wife of Oliver Tambo, ANC president and Mandela's former law
partner, and has known Mandela for decades. She is also a longtime friend of
Winnie Madikizela Mandela.
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He was a major anti-apartheid voice in the 1970s and 1980s and participated in
the worldwide 'Free Mandela' campaign.
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