Comte is the French, Catalan and Occitan form of the word 'count' (Latin: comes); comtÃ© is the Gallo-Romance form of the word 'county' (Latin: comitatus). Comte may mean: a count in French, from Latin comes Auguste Comte (1798â1857), philosopher Louis Comte (1788â1859), magician RaphaÃ«l Comte (born 1979), Swiss politician.
In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to do hard labor in a quarry. He was allowed one visitor a year for 30 minutes.
Mandela was arrested on Aug. 5, 1962, and sentenced to five years in prison for inciting a workersâ strike in 1961. A year later, in July 1963, the government launched a raid on the Lilliesleaf farm in Rivonia, which had been used as an ANC hideout.