A detention cell at the Robben Island prison that once held Nelson Mandela. 1992 Koto Bolofo The key to Mandela’s eight-foot square cell. 1992 Koto Bolofo A glimpse through a prison cell's ...

Nelson Mandela and former U.S. President Bill Clinton look to the outside from Mandela's Robben Island prison cell in Cape Town, South Africa, in this photo from March 27, 1998. Scott Applewhite/AP ...

A half-century ago Nelson Mandela was taken as a prisoner to Robben Island, 11 kilometers (seven miles) across the bay from Cape Town, where he would begin serving a life sentence for plotting to ...

Nelson Mandela wears his Robben Island prisoner number, 46664, at a press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Oct. 1, 2007.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) A half-century ago Nelson Mandela was taken as a prisoner to Robben Island, 11 kilometers (seven miles) across the bay from Cape Town, where he would begin serving a ...

Theresa May is shown the Robben Island cell where Nelson Mandela was held captive for nearly two decades. ... Liver King breaks silence as he's FREED from jail after dramatic Joe Rogan arrest; ...

JOHANNESBURG — A man has strapped himself to large balloons filled with helium and floated from the island where Nelson Mandela was kept prisoner to the shores of the South African mainland. … ...

US President Barack Obama looks out of the window of Nelson Mandela's jail cell on Robben Island, South Africa, on August 20, 2006. Obama on Sunday will once again visit the prison where Mandela ...

In South Africa on Sunday, President Barack Obama visited Robben Island, the now-defunct island prison where former South African President Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years behind bars for ...

Then-President Nelson Mandela revisits his South African prison cell on Robben Island, where he spent 18 of his 27 years in prison, in 1994. (Jurgen Schadeberg / Getty Images) By Robyn Dixon ...

ROBBEN ISLAND, SOUTH AFRICA — After 10 days of official mourning, Nelson Mandela’s body has been laid to rest. On Robben Island off Cape Town, where Mandela was imprisoned, visitors are coming ...

A former Robben Island prison guard has revealed that he once smuggled a baby into Nelson Mandela's cell in a bleak, maximum security prison so he could see his grandchild. Christo Brand said he ...