• The prison consists of 4 H-block General Sections, a U-shaped isolation block,, a hospital, an administration section, a kitchen and a dining hall...
  • He served the longest sentence of any political prisoner in Robben Island prison in South Africa.
  • Robben Island is a small island located in the waters just to the north of Cape Town which was used as a prison for nearly 400 years.
  • ...Mandela's prison island This Day in History | Journalists visit prison on Robben Island for the first time | 25 April 1977 Robben Island (UNESCO/NHK) No...
  • Inspired by the above speech which Mandela gave from the court dock during the famous Rivonia Trial of 1964, I set out to visit Robben Island- The prison island...
  • … then Mandela prison. From 1961, Robben Island becomes maximum security prison for convicts to long sentences.
  • An inactive prison at Robben Island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometers (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • The offshore Maximum Security Prison of Robben Island, a mile from the commercial Waterfront area, was a key site in the struggle to oppose apartheid and...
  • 6 External links. Toggle the table of contents. Robben Island (prison). ... Former prison off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. Maximum Security Prison.
  • 1. Robben Island served as South Africa’s maximum security prison. Entrance to the High-Security Prison at Robben Island. Photo by BassanK.
  • Maximum prisons in South Africa list. 1. Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre. 2. Kokstad’s C-Max Prison. 3. The Robben Island Prison.
  • The Maximum Security Prison that would be constructed on Robben Island was to be used exclusively to imprison black male political prisoners.
  • Learn about Robben Island, home to the South African maximum security prison in which Nelson Mandela was incarcerated in the latter half of the 20th century.