Christo Brand was Nelson Mandela's guard at Robben Island and Pollsmoor prisons.
He befriended the leader and helped him learn Afrikaans and also brought his baby granddaughter Zoleka to him in prison. The act would have seen Mr Brand lose his job if he had been discovered. After Mandela walked free from his final prison, Victor Verster, in 1990, the pair remained friends.culled
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