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Robben Island

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Today was one of those days that you don’t only enjoy but feel truly privileged to have experienced.

We visited Robben Island today.

Robben Island is where Nelson Mandela and most of the political prisoners from the African National Congress (ANC) the Pan African Congress (PAC) and many of the smaller political parties, all enemies of the state of Apartheid, were incarcerated. Mandela spent eighteen years on this island in a tiny solitary cell.

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