Robben Island Prison Museum: B-Section Courtyard (View 2)

Since the B-Section prisoners were kept apart form the rest of the prison population, they had to develop ingenious methods to maintain communication. One such method was to open a small slit in a tennis ball slip in a message (usually written on toilet paper) and then 'accidentally' throw it over the wall. Unsuspecting wardens would retrieve the ball, and return a message from the 'general population' of the prison. This way the prisoners obtained newspaper articles and other news of the outside world.