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University of Cape Town.
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Tim Jenkin
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He did so from 1975-1978 and posted a sign on the seventh floor of a Cape Town building which said "The African National Congress lives". He was arrested, pled guilty to all charges and received a 12-year sentence. However, a year later in 1979, Jenkin and fellow inmates Alex Moumbaris and Stephen Lee broke out of Pretoria Central Prison.
He also wrote Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison.
After moving back to South Africa, he co-founded the Community Exchange System in 2003, and was elected an Ashoka fellow in 2007.
Politics
Jenkin, a Cape Town resident and University of Cape Town alumnus, was charged with "producing and distributing 18 different pamphlets on behalf of banned organisations" including the South African Communist Party, African National Congress and the African National Congress"s armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe.
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Communist Party