by YUSUF KHAN DALWAI IN January 1982, a group of people with common interest formed what was then called the Robben Island Mazaar (Kramat) Committee. Their vision is to maintain the numerous shrines located in the Western Cape and to propagate the teachings of the saints interred therein. The name
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