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ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 001 Robben Island is Dutch for "seal island" and is located about 7 kilometres (4 miles) from Cape Town harbour. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 002 I reckon we're doing the trip a fair bit easier than when the prisoners were shipped over. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 003 Robben 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). : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 004 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 005 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 006 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year 
ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 007 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 008 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 009 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 010 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 011 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 012 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year 
ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 013 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 014 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 015 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 016 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. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 017 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. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 018 "Freshly squeezed water" - what tha???? 
ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 019 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 020 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 021 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 022 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 023 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 024 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year 
ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 025 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 026 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 027 Our guide for the day was actually imprisoned on the island for the best part of a decade. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 028 These were the "General Population" cells. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 029 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 030 All the comforts of home they reckon - a sisal mate and a horse blanket. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year 
ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 031 The prison diet was even seperated by colour/race. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 032 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 033 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 034 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 035 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 036 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year 
ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 037 The courtyard of where political prisoners like Mandela could exercise for an hour a day. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 038 The 4th window along was Mandela's cell. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 039 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 040 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 041 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 042 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year 
ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 043 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 044 Under these vines is where Mandela his his manuscript for "Long Walk To Freedom". : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 045 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 046 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. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 047 Could you imagine being the prison guard who had to sit here for thier entire shift? : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 048 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year 
ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 049 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 050 Mandela's cell. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 051 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 052 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 053 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 054 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year 
ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 055 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 056 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 057 The sight most prisoners longed for - the release doors. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 058 From the release doors, it was acroos the parade grounds and onto the Cape Town prisoner ferry. : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 059 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 060 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year 
ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 061 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 062 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 063 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 064 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 065 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year  ZAF WC CapeTown 2016NOV15 RobbenIsland 066 : 2016, Africa, Date, Month, November, Places, Robben Island, South Africa, Southern, Western Cape, Year 
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