1 Mac Maharaj (ed.), Reflections in Prison, (Cape Town: Robben Island Museum and Zebra Press, 2001), p. xi.
2 Nelson Mandela, summarised statement minuted at Robben Island Prison, Robben Island, 11 December 1978.
3 Robert Vassen, ‘Life as a Political Prisoner’, South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy, a project of MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences; the African Studies Center; and the Department of History, Michigan State University, http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/sidebar.php?id=65-258-8&page=3.
4 Walter Sisulu, introduction to Letters from Robben Island, Ahmed Kathrada (ed. Robert D. Vassen) (Cape Town: Mayibuye Books and East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999), p. xvi.
5 Eddie Daniels, There and Back: Robben Island 1964-1979 (Cape Town: CTP Book Printers, third edition, 2002), p. 160.
6 NM in conversation with Richard Stengel, Johannesburg, 14 December 1992, CD 6, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg.
7 Eddie Daniels, There and Back: Robben Island 1964-1979, p. 160.
8 Elinor Sisulu, In Our Lifetime: Walter & Albertina Sisulu (Cape Town: David Philip Publishers, 2002), p. 200.
9 NM, summarised statement minuted at Robben Island Prison, Robben Island, 11 December 1978.
10 See his letter to the commissioner of prisons dated 12 July 1976 on page 288, reference page 293.
11 Michael Dingake, ‘Comrade Madiba’ in Nelson Mandela: The Struggle is My Life, (London: Idaf, 1986), p. 224.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid., pp. 224–5.
15 Ibid., p. 225.
16 Ibid.
17 NM, speech at the 46664 Concert, Cape Town, 29 November 2003, http://db.nelsonmandela.org/speeches/pub_view.asp?pg=item&ItemID=NMS950&txtstr=46664.
18 NM in conversation with Richard Stengel, Johannesburg, 16 April 1993, CD 51, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg.
19 ‘Mandela Wins Week’s Adjournment’, Cape Times, 16 October 1962.
20 NM, speech to the court, Old Synagogue, Pretoria, 22 October 1962, http://db.nelsonmandela.org/speeches/pub_view.asp?pg=item&ItemID=NMS011&txtstr=recusal.
21 NM in conversation with Richard Stengel, 16 and 17 April 1993, CD 52, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg.
22 Bob Hepple, Young Man With a Red Tie: A Memoir of Mandela and the Failed Revolution, 1960–1963 (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2013), p. 48.
23 ‘Mandela Gets 5 Years: Described as Mastermind’, The Argus, 7 November 1962.
24 ‘Shouts, Clenched Fists, Songs, as Mandela is Gaoled, Cape Times, 8 November 1962.
25 Ibid.
26 For the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) see the glossary.
27 ‘Mandela is Asked Not to Become “Difficult”’, Rand Daily Mail, 25 October 1962.
28 NM in conversation with Richard Stengel, Johannesburg, 16 April 1993, CD 51, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg.
29 NM in conversation with Richard Stengel, Johannesburg, 3 December 1992, CD 2, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg.
30 NM in conversation with Richard Stengel, Johannesburg, 16 and 17 April 1993, CD 52, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg.
31 NM, Long Walk to Freedom (London: Abacus, 2013), p. 414.
32 Ibid.
33 Joel Joffe, The State vs. Nelson Mandela: The Trial that Changed South Africa (London: One World Publications, 2007) p. 41.
34 Ibid., p. 42.
35 Ibid., p. 42.
36 ‘Sir Bob Hepple Obituary’, The Guardian, 26 August 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/aug/26/sir-bob-hepple.
37 NM, Long Walk to Freedom, p. 33.
38 Ibid., p. 444.
39 Ibid., p. 447.
40 NM in conversation with Richard Stengel, Johannesburg, 3 December 1992, CD 2, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg.
41 Christo Brand, Doing Life with Mandela (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2014), p. 46.
42 Indres Naidoo, as told to Albie Sachs, Island in Chains: Ten Years on Robben Island by Prisoner 885/63 (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1982), p. 87.
43 Mac Maharaj, ‘Interview with Mac Maharaj’, 1978, in The Struggle is My Life, p. 208.
44 Ibid.
45 NM, Long Walk to Freedom, p. 458.
46 NM in conversation with Richard Stengel, Johannesburg, c. March 1993, CD 21, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg.
47 Ibid.
48 Ibid.
49 Mac Maharaj, telephone conversation with Sahm Venter, 27 June 2017.
50 Winnie Madikizela Mandela (eds. Sahm Venter and Zamawazi Dlamini Mandela), 491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 (Johannesburg: Picador Africa, 2013), p. 25.
51 Joel Carlson, No Neutral Ground (London: Davis-Poynter Ltd, 1973), p. 291.
52 NM, Long Walk to Freedom, p. 682.
53 Ibid, p. 120.
54 Ahmed Kathrada and Sahm Venter, Conversations with a Gentle Soul (Johannesburg: Picador Africa, 2017), p. 87.
55 Mandela v Minister of Prisons [1981] 3 All SA 449 (A) in the Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division.
56 NM, Long Walk to Freedom, p. 568.
57 Ibid, p. 624.
58 Ibid., p. 608.
59 Ibid., pp. 624–25.
60 Ibid., p. 625.
61 NM in conversation with Richard Stengel, Johannesburg, 8 February 1993, CD 19, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg.
62 NM, Long Walk to Freedom, p. 646.
63 NM in conversation with Richard Stengel, 8 February 1993, CD 19, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg.
64 NM, Long Walk to Freedom, p. 647.
65 NM in conversation with Richard Stengel, c. 2 and 3 February 1993, CD 17, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg.
66 Ibid.
67 Jack Swart, telephone conversation with Sahm Venter, 7 September 2017.
68 Padraig O’Malley, Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa (New York: Viking, 2007), p. 312.
69 Ibid., p. 313.
70 NM, Long Walk to Freedom, p. 618.