A former member of the PAC, Kwede MKALIP, was released from Robben Island in December last year after being imprisoned for 20 years.
Mkalipi was charged in the Cape Town Supreme Court in 1965 with inciting others to undergo military training outside South Africa and with being a member of the PAC. He was sentenced on 4 February 1966.
On his release he was sent under escort to the Transkei bantustan where he was banished to Baziya near Umtata.
On 23 November last year Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital in Cape Town, where he had undergone surgery to remove an enlarged prostate gland, and returned to Pollsmoor Prison.
While he was in hospital there was speculation that he was about to be released and sent out of the country. The speculation arose after Mandela was held in the hospital for longer than necessary, was permitted an interview with his legal representatives, and Winnie Mandela was allowed an extension on her visiting time in hospital.
After his return to Pollsmoor, Mandela was held apart from his fellow prisoners in the prison hospital. His daughter Zinzi issued a statement on 9 December in which she said that any agreement between the South African government and a foreign government for her father's release into banishment or exile without his knowledge or consent would be totally rejected by him.
