On 11 February 1990, at 16:14 local time, Nelson Mandela, once South Africa's most wanted man, walked out of Victor Verster ... his prison term on Robben Island. He was held in a small cell ...

Plus his real birth name and how he got to be called Nelson NELSON Mandela was a globally hailed hero who fought for freedom and the end of the apartheid struggle. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years ... Stories When Mandela was moved to Victor Verster in 1988, Swart became his ...

For almost 30 years, political activist Nelson Mandela was imprisoned ... because of the damp conditions in his cell. He was moved to Victor Verster Prison and for the first time had a relatively ...

CAPE TOWN - ANC stalwart and former finance minister Trevor Manuel detailed the events that unfolded when they were informed that Nelson ... Mandela was due to be released from the Victor Verster ...

Mandela started boxing ... exacerbated by the damp cell, and was admitted to hospital, coughing blood. He was moved to a prison warder’s house in Victor Verster Prison near the Western Cape ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- Hollywood star Will Smith led a crowd of 46,664 in a chorus of "Happy Birthday" to Nelson ... prison and Victor Verster Prison, closer to the mainland. While in prison ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Thirty years ago, Nelson Mandela was released ... and striding purposefully from the gates of Victor Verster prison, Mandela, then 71, made it clear he was committed ...

Nelson Mandela’s old prison cell on Robben Island ... Mandela was transferred to Cape Town’s Pollsmoor Prison, and later Victor Verster Prison (now Drakensfield Correctional Centre) in ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- Hollywood star Will Smith led a crowd of 46,664 in a chorus of "Happy Birthday" to Nelson ... prison and Victor Verster Prison, closer to the mainland. While in prison ...