1Robben Island is Dutch for "seal island" and is located about 7 kilometres (4 miles) from Cape Town harbour.
2 I reckon we're doing the trip a fair bit easier than when the prisoners were shipped over.
3Robben Island doesn't look very big when you're approaching it from Cape Town harbour, but it is roughly 3 kilometres (2 miles) long north-south, and 2 kilometres (1 mile) wide, with an area of 5 km² (2 miles²).
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16 This man is Christo Brand who came to Robben Island in 1978 as an unquestioningly pro-apartheid 18-year-old white prison guard. His experiences with Nelson Mandela brought him to change his views about the man, about racial oppression and his country.
Christo went on to write Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend which is an account of the respect an friendship that lasted until Mandela's death in 2013.
17 This was one of the quarries that dot the island in which those who were sent to "hard labour" would spend 12 hours a day with pick and shovel.
18 "Freshly squeezed water" - what tha????
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27 Our guide for the day was actually imprisoned on the island for the best part of a decade.
28 These were the "General Population" cells.
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30 All the comforts of home they reckon - a sisal mate and a horse blanket.
31 The prison diet was even seperated by colour/race.
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37 The courtyard of where political prisoners like Mandela could exercise for an hour a day.
38 The 4th window along was Mandela's cell.
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44 Under these vines is where Mandela his his manuscript for "Long Walk To Freedom".
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46 Don't think any of these people would be jostling each other if they had permanent accomodations in the cells. Some of them were down right rude in how the visited the site and spoke to the guide.
47 Could you imagine being the prison guard who had to sit here for thier entire shift?
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50 Mandela's cell.
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57 The sight most prisoners longed for - the release doors.
58 From the release doors, it was acroos the parade grounds and onto the Cape Town prisoner ferry.