Sonny Venkatrathnam
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Sonny Venkatrathnam
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Sonny Venkatrathnam was a South African anti-apartheid activist and human rights activist who was imprisoned in the Robben Island Maximum Security Prison along with other anti-apartheid activists including Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, and Mac Maharaj. He was most famously known for smuggling an edition of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare into the prison. The book was shared with many of the high-profile prisoners in the prison and was called the Robben Island Bible.
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South African human rights activist (1935–2019)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Venkatrathnam
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2023-08-12T10:48:42Z
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