Comrade Andrew Mlangeni’s life was, in jail and outside, a life steeped in the belief and teachings to live and work with what you have and resist or never take favours you did not ask for, writes former Robben Island prisoner, Morakabe Raks Seakhoa.
My first encounter with Comrade Andrew Mlangeni was in late 1979 or early 1980 on Robben Island.
Some of us in the group had just arrived on the island and were clearly over-awed to meet these famous Rivonia Treason Trial prisoners and heroes when the latter stopped to greet us. They then told us “we are just like you, we are not larger than life, even though we might be seen to be in the leadership of the organisation.”
Even though we lived in different sections of the prison, comrade Mlangeni and his co-accuseds’ leadership and influence permeated throughout the island. Through the force of example, skill and experience, they somehow honed a way of making you feel less self-conscious of your age, newness in prison, embarrassment about some new words and concepts when you were inspanned into novel pursuits like umrhabulo , poverty or lack of support from home or simply that sense of less-worthiness.
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