It was Nov. 9, 1970, and the prisoner was Nelson Mandela ... With Myself.” On Robben Island, the political prisoners faced hard labor, breaking rocks in the lime quarry. They were ordered ...

President Nelson Mandela returned Friday to the Robben Island, South Africa, lime quarry where he labored for many of his 27 years in prison and said South Africa owed it to the victims of ...

Relentlessly pounded by the angry surf and chilled by the icy winds of the south Atlantic, Robben Island ... centuries before Mandela broke rocks in its dusty quarry, the Island (as it was known ...

It was the Alcatraz of South Africa, a grim island outpost off the coast of Cape Town. The inmates of Robben Island, unlike those on The Rock, were political prisoners: Nelson Mandela, Walter ...

It was here, he said, that Nelson Mandela toiled virtually ... “but this limestone quarry was one of the great universities of the world.” Robben Island, a desolate outcropping five miles ...

ROBBEN ISLAND, SOUTH AFRICA — After 10 days of official mourning, Nelson Mandela ... in the island’s lime quarry, where the harsh light permanently damaged Mandela’s eyesight.

For almost 30 years, political activist Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in South Africa. Locked up in appalling conditions, most notably Robben Island ... working in a lime quarry.

Plans to auction off the key that kept Nelson Mandela ... to hold an auction of items belonging to Mandela — including the key to his Robben Island prison cell — later this month.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – He was with Nelson Mandela during all those years the anti-apartheid icon was imprisoned on Robben Island. And, like millions around the world, he has been hit hard by ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - One summer day in 1979 I broke several apartheid laws as a teenager, searching for a glimpse of Nelson Mandela on South Africa's notorious Robben Island prison. My ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- President Obama walked in the steps of Nelson Mandela on Sunday as he ... Obama’s tour of the prison at Robben Island was something of a symbolic union between the ...