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My focus is on our struggles inside prison. These were struggles to improve the terrible conditions that were beyond any civilised standards. Even in the harshest conditions all the forces fighting the regimes, were united against a common enemy.

Mlangeni was the last surviving accused in the historic Treason Trial of 1964, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment alongside Nelson Mandela and five other liberation struggle icons. He died July 20 in his Soweto home at the age of 95.

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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. - Chinua Achebe

A member of the ANC's military wing, Denis Goldberg was sentenced with Mandela and spent 22 years in a whites-only prison - the only white member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), to be arrested and sentenced for armed resistance to white-minority rule.