Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island. The conditions would have broken most men, but in many ways, they made Mandela. Eddie Daniels, a fellow prisoner of ...

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 ...

Everyone in South Africa has their own Nelson Mandela story, but Jack Swart’s might be the sweetest. As his chef during Mandela’s final years of incarceration, Swart witnessed his charge’s morning ...

New York auction house Guernsey's has postponed the sale of some of the South African leader's belongings, including the key to his cell and the... Plans to auction off the key that kept Nelson ...

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 Sisulu, ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – A half-century ago Nelson Mandela was taken as a prisoner to Robben Island, 11 kilometers (seven miles) across the bay from Cape Town, where he would begin serving a life ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to do ...

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 businessman ...

Plans to auction off the key that kept Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa and legendary anti-apartheid activist, behind bars are off. The auction house, New York City-based ...