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35 Powerful Facts About Worldwide Peacemaker, Nelson Mandela

Trista April 7, 2019 16 min

President of South Africa - African National Congress

10. Nelson Mandela Received a Lifetime Sentence on Robben Island

The inside of Mandela’s prison cell as it was when he was imprisoned in 1964 and his open cell window facing the prison yard on Robben Island, now a national and World Heritage Site. Witstinkhout / Wikimedia.

Following police raids on Spear of the Nation headquarters, documents that mentioned Mandela were used to initiate new charges of sabotage and sedition. For these charges, he was given a life sentence on Robben Island, a remote prison off the coast of South Africa. It was a notoriously harsh prison; white guards frequently harassed the prisoners, and he had to spend his days splitting rocks with a pickaxe.

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10. Nelson Mandela Received a Lifetime Sentence on Robben Island

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