There isn't much to see in the Robben Island cell ... were given warmer clothes and better rations than black prisoners. When Mandela arrived in 1968 he wasn't even allowed shoes or long pants ...

What I remember, when we landed on Robben Island, his words were ... easily got preferential treatment. Even the clothing was different. Mr Mandela [and other black inmates] were wearing ...

Sentenced to life inprisonment with hard labour, Mandela lands on Robben Island in 1962 ... Brent Council, in north-west London, set another fashion when it named a street after Mandela.

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It turns out that Cosmopolitan magazine was used to send secret messages between prisoners of Robben Island, where Mandela was imprisoned, and the outside world. They used intructions to buy an ...

In 1997, three years after apartheid fell, the prison was turned into the Robben Island Museum. The most powerful part of the tour is a visit to Mandela’s cell, a 7-by-9-foot room where a bulb ...