“I left because the ground in which I could operate was shrinking, getting smaller and smaller. I felt it was better to carry on the struggle outside, rather than risk going to jail to rot there doing nothing. This I have done. But the struggle for liberation cannot be carried on outside the country; it is inside the country. That is where the battle is and where it will be won. When Fikile Bam came out of Robben Island after ten years, in his first letter to me he wrote: 'Mama, we have decided to remain in the country. The struggle is here and not outside.' This was in response to my efforts trying to get him out of the country. Fikile was right,” South African AuthorPhyllis NtantalaPhyllis Ntantala JordanA Life S MosaicSouth African WriterSouth African Book Book:A Life's Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala Source: A Life's Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala