He, Lee and Moumbaris walked out of Pretoria Central’s front door the following year after cutting wooden keys for 10 doors in the prison workshop, and fled to Europe via Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Jenkin – whose autobiography Inside Out: Escape From Pretoria Prison is the basis for the script – suspected the actors were filming a scene of the period before their imprisonment in 1978, when he was branded a terrorist after conducting covert anti-apartheid operations for the ANC. Videos showed him riding in the back of a Valiant stationwagon dressed up as a taxi for “non-whites”. Radcliffe was dressed in a striped beige polo shirt, blue and white check flared trousers and a navy cap. Photographs and videos of Radcliffe on set began to emerge on Thursday after the shoot moved to a public street outside an Adelaide railway station. The 29-year-old actor has been keen to understand what motivated Jenkin and fellow escapees Stephen Lee and Alex Moumbaris. Instead of watching Daniel Radcliffe playing himself in the movie Escape From Pretoria, the activist is having Skype calls with the Harry Potter star. “This time, when I applied at the end of February, they said it would taken between 18 and 29 working days.” “I’ve been to Australia several times and it’s always taken four or five days to get a visa,” 70-year-old Jenkin said on Thursday from his Cape Town home. This time, though, it’s not the apartheid regime to blame, but the Australian immigration system. In 1979, Tim Jenkin fled his captors by cutting wooden keys and using them to escape from Pretoria Central prison.įorty years later, keen to be on the set where the movie depicting one of SA’s most daring prison breaks is being shot, Jenkin finds himself trapped again.
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