The busload of tourists on Robben Island grew quiet as Yasien Mohamed, our 63-year-old guide, gestured to a bleak limestone quarry on the ... and a visit to the prison. The island was first ...
In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island ... 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to do hard labor in a quarry.