South Africa's journey from apartheid to democracy was a long and violent one.

Thousands paid with their lives. long and

yet more thousands were tortured or forced into exile

and yet more thousands were jailed for their part

in the armed struggle against a system that was deemed a crime

against humanity by the United Nations.

Today 22 years after the official end of apartheid, dozens of men who consider themselves political prisoners are still behind bars.

I'm Audrey Brown and for the BBC World Service I've come to find out more about Apartheid's forgotten prisoners.

Morning, morning.

Now it's just before 8 o'clock on a beautifully sunny, late winter winter morning and I'm at the Boxburg prison just outside

Johannesburg waiting for a man who's been in prison for the same time as Nelson Mandela

was. So Kenny Mutamai was the top commander in the

military wing of one of South Africa's main liberation movements, the Pan-Africanist

Congress or the PAC, which broke away from the ANC in 1958.

He's been in prison now for 27 years and he's now essentially the rallying point for the

PAC's campaign to free all their members in prison for what they say were crimes that they committed in order to free South Africans

from the oppression and injustice of apartheid.

Ken, how are you? Fine, fine, fine.

You're going through the process of getting yourself out, okay?

Yes, yes.

All right, okay fine. So when I was here in January, you know there were all these people here from the PAC.

They were singing. They were dressed in the black green and gold they were

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