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Tshwete, incarcerated on Robben Island with Mandela, practically moved McGeechan and Cotton to tears when he recounted his experiences of listening to those radios and hearing how they brought the Springboks to their knees.

It prompted Labour council leader John Cotton to condemn "violence on picket lines".

I stuffed my ears with bits of cotton to keep out the evil voices.

Bland got attention in 2020 with his statement that the Black community had gone from “from picking cotton to picking presidents,” and he remains steadfast in his determination to replicate that success.

Willie Ingram picked everything from cotton to okra during his 51 years in the state penitentiary, better known as Angola.