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South Africa, Cape Town, David Williams "Faces" 54 Y / (Member 28).A well known character in the Cape Town city centre, the man they call Face spent more than half his life in prison for crimes ranging from theft to assault. || A long time member of the 28s, Williams was incarcerated during the apartheid years. "The prisons in the apartheid years were also apart, the coloureds with the coloureds, the blacks with the blacks and the whites with the whites.?AeuHe remembers how the Number existed to fight injustice inside the prison system. "Now in the apartheid years we stabbed the officials, the white man. We did this to get them to hear our voices.?AeuThe respect that the Number has brought him is of paramount importance and he talks of how walking the streets of Cape Town many people will greet him with respect. "My name is respected because I poured a lot of blood for my name that I might be respected.?Aeu (KEYSTONE/LAIF/Philipp Engelhorn)