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.
It is our task as leaders to place our views before our organization and to allow the democratic structures to decide,â Mandela said on Feb. 11, 1990. View photos of Nelson Mandelaâs prison years and release. Former South African president and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela turns 95 on Thursday. He spent many of his years in jail while still fighting for a democratic and free society. In all, Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years, 18 of those on Robben Island, a rock quarry off the coast of Cape Town.