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...DIED. WILTON MKWAYI, 81, antiapartheid fighter who served more than 20 years of a life sentence with Nelson Mandela in prison on Robben Island; in King Williams Town, South Africa. Mkwayi helped found an armed-resistance movement called Spear of the Nation in the 1950s. Convicted of treason in 1964, he was released as the apartheid system was being dismantled...
...leaders who had been flown to Johannesburg from Cape Town on Friday also reportedly were freed yesterday. These include three men sentenced to life prison terms in 1964 along with Sisulu and Mandela--Andrew Mlengeni, 63, Elias Mostsoaledi, 65, and Ahmed Kathrada, 60--and another ANC leader, Wilton Mkwayi, 67, who was sentenced to a life prison term in a separate 1964 trial...
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