Nelson Mandela had true courage, faith, compassion and lack of bitterness - but he did love a good gossip!

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 ...

(CNN)-- During much of Nelson ... he could only receive one visitor and one letter every six months. That improved over time, but his correspondence was still rationed. His former prison warder ...

It was here, he said, that Nelson Mandela ... 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 ...

(CNN)-- Whether talking about his time in prison, his struggle against apartheid, his emergence as a global icon or cracking a joke about his career, Nelson ... man is not he who does not feel ...

In 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested and charged with inciting ... attended the trial as an official observer and when Mandela was sentenced to five years in jail, he was adopted as a prisoner of ...

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 ...

Nelson Mandela was a famous leader. A man who went from being a prisoner to a President and became an inspiration to people all over the world! Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa. Most South ...