Last Sunday we were on the legendary Robben Island Iceland.
The island is a former prison island off the Atlantic coast of Cape Town, about twelve miles away.
was famous for the island by Nelson Mandela, who spent 18 of his 27 during the apartheid years in prison on the island. But in the 16th Century it was used because of its ideal location as accommodation for the disabled, the sick and prisoners. Escape attempts were because of the distance to the land and the cold, dangerous current practically hopeless.
We started the trip on a catamaran from the newly-ADAPTED Harbour Centre Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. After a rather turbulent ride, just before the landing-pier of the island, we saw the Table Mountain blurred only in the distant haze.
At the entrance to the island, which has since been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the famous gate, which had to go through each convict.
The first part of the tour went on a bus on the island while a guide explained to us the buildings and places of the island.
take the lead within the prison wing Quietly only prisoners and guards.
It was kind of unreal, in the corridors of the block running around B, on concrete, on which people have already been beaten, people were crying, were mad, and broke ...
The courtyards are now grown and there is an all "nice" before ... no comparison to Dachau and Theresienstadt!
Mandela's cell is small and unimaginably inhumane poor in the facility. It is hard to imagine that lived right here on this about six square meters of a man - eighteen years Country - and then the first black president was in South Africa. Today it is one fact among the most famous people in the world. - Irgentwie unreal.
Real was our guide who led us through the Gefängis and told from the life.
He was an old but vigorous man, still strong - although with a few ticks - but very authentic. He was jailed seven years on Robben Iceland, like a long time worked in the kitchen and brought Mandela even the food.
He was imprisoned because he was the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) followed. This was a major South African anti-apartheid liberation movement and is still today a minor political party. In 1959, the PAC formed as a splinter group of the African National Congress (ANC) of some former members who were seeking the most peaceful and not at all breeds targeted policy of the ANC were in agreement and a more radical, pure black African organization.
The encounter with the Exhäftling was - although it only for routine and one of thousands - very impressive, exciting and moving.
As with our history, the witnesses differ here by and by there. You have to listen
man as long as they can tell yet.
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