19+ Nelson Mandela Pictures Of Robben Island Images. These days, it's a tourist attraction. Eight men, among them nelson mandela, with their fists raised in defiance through the barred windows of the prison car, leave the palace of justice in pretoria, having been sentenced to life imprisonment for 1966:

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As the imprisoned nelson mandela became the face of a global campaign against apartheid, within having been in jail since the early 1960s, and his pictures banned from being circulated in public or our curiosity about mandela remained insatiable. Robbeneiland) is an island in table bay, 6.9 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the coast of bloubergstrand, north of cape town, south africa. Nelson mandela—an activist and the former president of south africa, who was instrumental in ending apartheid in the country and a champion of human rights—would have turned 100 this year.

It was the island where many of south africa's freedom fighters were imprisoned and where nelson mandela spent 18 years of his life.

In an effort to marry history with the future, google and robben island museum have. Mandela drew the picture back in 2002 and kept it with him until his death in 2013. These days, it's a tourist attraction. The two men — one a young, white afrikaner prison guard, the other a charismatic african freedom fighter imprisoned for life — should.