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"Number Four" was built to house black and "native" prisoners, and was the most notorious section in the former the prison complex. PHOTO: Ryan Mulligan '21

Former prisons at ‘Con Hill’ offer a history of South Africa not taught in schools

On Constitution Hill in central Johannesburg sits both the ruins of one of the country’s most oppressive prisons and its highest court, the Constitutional Court, each contributing to the story of South...

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