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The Prisoner 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. He could write and receive one letter every six months.
Robben Island: The place that changed Nelson Mandela. Jurgen Schadeberg / Getty Images. 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. (Jurgen Schadeberg / Getty Images) JOHANNESBURG, South Africa â The brightly painted ferry sailed to the island prison like a dazzling bird swooping down to land.