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A prison guard looks over the gallows at Pretoria's maximum security prison in 1995. South African President Jacob Zuma has opened a memorial on the site of the main gallows where dozens of political prisoners sentenced to death for fighting apartheid were hanged.  A prison guard looks over the gallows at Pretoria's maximum security prison in 1995. … South African President Jacob Zuma opened a memorial Thursday on the site of the main gallows where dozens of political prisoners sentenced to death for fighting apartheid were hanged. The Pretoria Central Prison gallows, torn down after the fall of white-minority rule, have been rebuilt alongside a museum honouring the 134 political prisoners executed on the site from 1961 to 1989. "The dismantling of the gallows here at C Max Correctional Centre, Pretoria, in 1996 robbed people of an opportunity to know and understand the painful history of the executions that were carried out by the apartheid state," Zuma said.