Neville Alexander

NLF/Former Unity Movement. On Robben Island from 1964 to 1974. Intellectual and educationalist; author of numerous books. Active in Workers' Party at time of 1994 interview. In 2002, Director of the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa at the University of Cape Town.

Natoo Babenia and and Fezile Mlanda

Both ANC. Babenia on Robben Island 1964 to 1982. Robben Island experiences discussed in his Memoirs of a Saboteur. At the time of the interview, worked for the Gandhi Library in Durban. Babenia died on 1 January 1999. Mlanda released from Robben Island in 1986 after a long sentence, apparently since the 1960s. At the time of the interview in 1994, lived in Mndanstane. As of 2002, he described his employment history as union and NGO work.

Fikile Bam

NLF/Former Unity Movement. On Robben Island from 1964 to 1974. Banished to Transkei after release. Practiced as a human rights lawyer in the Eastern Cape in the 1980s. As of 2002, Bam served as Judge-President of the Land Claims Court from 1995. Politically nonpartisan. Active in community affairs.

Vronda Banda

On Robben Island from 1982 to 1990 as ANC member. After release, joined the NP as an organizer, becoming deputy mayor of Soweto in the mid 1990s. Thereafter he resigned from the NP and again joined the ANC. In late March 1997, he was murdered. Some in the ANC alleged that he had been an ANC spy in the NP.