Cell Robben Island Jail
The moment i smuggled a baby into nelson mandela s jail cell.
Cell robben island jail. It is prominent because nobel laureate and former president of south africa nelson mandela was imprisoned there for 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid. In the winter of 1964 nelson mandela arrived on robben island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. During the apartheid era it was a kind of purgatory in plain sight for those. Dw s ludger schadomsky visited the island and.
Confined to a small cell the floor his bed a bucket for a toilet he was forced to. It is a sou. These days it s a tourist attraction. A view into mandela s prison life nelson mandela spent 18 years in prison on robben island.
In this file photo nelson mandela and former us president bill clinton peer through the bars of prison cell no 5 where mandela was jailed for 18 years in his struggle against apartheid on. After that three former inmates of this prison nelson mandela kgalema motlanthe and jacob zuma have gone on to become president of south africa. Maximum security prison is an inactive prison at robben island in table bay 6 9 kilometers west of the coast of bloubergstrand cape town south africa. And my prisoner became my friend by robben island guard.