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 side of the road. It was here, he said, that Nelson ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 ... "The Most Important Person in Any Prisoner's Life" This short chapter from Mandela's memoirs describes ...

Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela ... in a prison cell on Robben Island, which is the same prison Mandela was in from 1964 to ...

The Times noted that Soweto is more than 700 miles away from Robben Island, where Mandela was imprisoned ... claimed that more than “150 million people have been killed since 2007” due ...

It was on this fairly desolate land mass that Nelson Mandela, militant anti-apartheid activist and former president of South Africa, was held captive. Today, Robben Island houses a fascinating ...

The series also explores Mandela's political activism with the African National Congress, his 27-year incarceration on Robben Island, his dramatic release and his triumphant years as president of ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- Hollywood star Will Smith led a crowd of 46,664 in a chorus of "Happy Birthday" to Nelson ... Mandela's prison number when he was incarcerated at Robben Island.

TREVOR MCDONALD: In the 1940s South Africa was under apartheid rule: the doctrine that white people were ... was in prison on Robben Island. In 1990 it was announced that Mandela would finally ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 ... "The Most Important Person in Any Prisoner's Life" This short chapter from Mandela's memoirs describes ...