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Robben Island Prison is an inactive prison on Robben Island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometers (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. 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 .
916. Region. Africa. Robben Island ( Afrikaans: Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, north of Cape Town, South Africa. It takes its name from the Dutch word for seals ( robben ), hence the Dutch/Afrikaans name Robbeneiland, which translates to Seal (s) Island .
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( / mænˈdɛlə / man-DEH-lə; [ 1] Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
As a young man, Luyanda Mpahlwa spent five years imprisoned at Robben Island during South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement. The award-winning architect has since used that experience to ...
Robben Island: Western Cape near Cape Town in Table Bay: 507 hectares (1,250 acres) The island where Nelson Mandela and others were imprisoned Saint Croix Island Group (3) Eastern Cape near Port Elizabeth: now part of the Addo Elephant National Park: 1. Saint Croix Island
t. e. Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe OMSG (5 December 1924 – 27 February 1978) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), serving as the first president of the organization. Sobukwe was regarded as a strong proponent of an Africanist future for South Africa and opposed political ...
Billy Nair. Billy Nair (27 November 1929 – 23 October 2008) was a South African politician, trade unionist, and anti-apartheid activist. He was a member of the National Assembly of South Africa and a political prisoner in Robben Island . Nair was a long-serving political prisoner on Robben Island along with Nelson Mandela in the 'B' Block for ...
A video by "America Divided Podcast" falsely claims former President Barack Obama is in jail, using real footage from a visit to South African prison. Fact check: Video shows Barack Obama visiting ...