(CNN)-- During much of Nelson Mandela's imprisonment ... His former prison warder Christo Brandt remembers taking 12 birthday cards to Mandela on his 60th birthday. That was his correspondence ...

February 11, 1990 – Nelson Mandela freed from prison, four years to the day after Sharansky. World Jewry “reacts with elation“ February 27, 1990 – Mandela raises eyebrows in when he ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years ... a year for 30 minutes. He could write and receive one letter every six months.

In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that many people believed, as she did, that anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. In fact ...

In 1962, Mandela went to jail for almost 30 years. There were protests against Apartheid and calls for his release around the world. In 1990, Nelson Mandela was set free. "Today the majority of ...