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Criminal

Ten Doors

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Tim Jenkin was a member of the ANC (African National Congress). The organization had been declared unlawful in South Africa, seen by the white minority as a threat to public order. In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Just before he was convicted, someone gave him a book called Papillon, by Henri Charrière, which he said “was really a manual of escape.” Along with two other incarcerated activists, Stephen Lee and Alex Moumbaris, he began to secretly collect materials and cash, following instructions from the book. Tim Jenkin knew that the only way to open the many locked doors between him and the outside world would be to find a way to make some keys. Lots of keys. Tim Jenkin’s book is Escape from Pretoria. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.0

We know now that they were following us for about a month prior to our rest.

0:36.6

We did notice strange things happening, but when you're working underground you are, for most of the time you're a bit paranoid, you kind of imagine that everyone is looking at you or knows what you're doing.

0:52.0

And looking back after the arrest we realized that they were

0:56.3

following us for quite a while. In 1978 29-year-old Tim Jenkin was active in the political efforts of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement.

1:08.0

The country had been operating under apartheid for 30 years, a system that institutionalized racial segregation.

1:17.4

The word apartheid means apartness, and the government was controlled by a white minority.

1:24.0

Tim Jenkins is white.

1:26.0

He grew up in Cape Town.

1:28.0

So I grew up under this situation where everything was divided.

1:32.0

So, um... where everything was divided. So spatially cities and towns were divided.

1:37.0

There were white areas and there were black areas.

1:40.0

So we went to white schools and there were black schools in the black areas.

1:45.6

Everything was separated. Even buildings had separate lifts for white people,

1:50.8

for black people.

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