Nelson Mandela and former U.S. President Bill Clinton look to the outside from Mandela's Robben Island prison cell in Cape Town, South Africa, in this photo from March 27, 1998.

Nelson Mandela and former president Bill Clinton look to the outside from Mandela's Robben Island prison cell in Cape Town, South Africa in 1998. AP South Africa’s Cape Town boasts stunning ...

His tiny, spare cell in the island’s maximum security building still stands as mute testimony to the years of hardship endured by the unbending Mandela. Cell No. 4 in the prison B section ...

In 1997, three years after apartheid fell, the prison was turned into the Robben Island Museum. The most powerful part of the tour is a visit to Mandela’s cell, ...

Robben Island Prison - Nelson Mandela's Cell Atagana says that mapping the island wasn’t without its challenges. For instance, Street View usually uses cars to map a place, but as the prison is ...

Nelson Mandela spent 18 years in prison on Robben Island. These days, it’s a tourist attraction. DW’s Ludger Schadomsky visited the island and Mandela’s famous cell #5 – he also met ...

Then-President Nelson Mandela revisits his South African prison cell on Robben Island, where he spent 18 of his 27 years in prison, in 1994.

Mandela first went to Robben Island Prison in May 1963, after being sentenced the previous October to five years for sabotage, as he led a campaign against the apartheid government in South Africa.

New York auction house Guernsey's has postponed the sale of some of the South African leader's belongings, including the key to his cell and the shirt he wore when he was released from Robben Island.

The key to the prison cell on Robben Island once occupied by Nelson Mandela is going to be returned to South Africa rather than be auctioned in the US, a minister says.