The auction house, New York City-based Guernsey's, planned to hold an auction of items belonging to Mandela — including the key to his Robben Island prison cell — later this month. Bidding was ...

President Bill Clinton and South African President Nelson Mandela peer through the bars of the prison where Mandela was jailed for 18 years on March 27, 1998, on Robben Island. His tiny ...

using the two-square mile rocky outcrop four miles off Cape Town as a prison. Being sent to live out their day on Robben Island was the fate of those who dared resist the incursion of European ...

Nelson Mandela and former president Bill Clinton look to the outside from Mandela's Robben Island prison cell in Cape Town, South Africa in 1998. AP South Africa’s Cape Town boasts stunning ...

We stood in the yard of Robben Island Prison, looking at the tennis court that some prisoners were allowed to use for exercise. "We would take a tennis ball, cut a small opening in it, put a note ...

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 ...

When he returned to Robben Island, he shared this with Mandela and urged him to request dental treatment. A few months later, Mandela and two other prison colleagues found themselves in the same ...

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 ...

Elba said that before filming started, he “spent the night” in a prison cell on Robben Island, which is the same prison Mandela was in from 1964 to 1982. “I’d been given the incredible ...

Cape Town, South Africa – One morning in December 1967, prison warders strode into Robben Island’s Cell Block 4 with a football and randomly chose two teams of 11. While walking to the ...