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Tue 11 Nov 2002Death row survivor tells prisoners not to lose hopeDuma Kumalo stood by the whitewashed walls of the execution room in Mountjoy Prison in quiet contemplation yesterday. His own neck was measured for the hangman's noose in the 1980s when, as one of the Sharpeville Six in apartheid South Africa, he was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.In Mountjoy to talk to prisoners about his experiences, Mr Kumalo said he was impressed that much of the 150-year-old gallows had been preserved. On a recent visit to the Johannesburg prison where he was on death row, he had discovered that the execution room was now a gym. "That is denial, it is important to remember," he said.