Robben Island Gatehouse and Prison Complex

Year

1961

Type

building

Seven kilometres offshore in Table Bay, this prison complex held Nelson Mandela for eighteen of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment. The buildings are architecturally unremarkable (single-story cell blocks of plastered concrete block wit …

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