After we did the island tour we went and met our guide for the prison on Robben Island. The tour guides for just the prison part are all ex-prisoners that used to be there!!! What a perspective to get while walking around. Sadly, I didn't get any pictures of the outside of the prison, but these will do.
Inside one of the big prisoner holding rooms, this would house about 60 men. They would sleep on the floor and have just 2 or 3 blankets they could use.
Here is the man that gave us our tour. He was in the prison for political reasons.
An example of the ID card for each prisoner.
Their meals. It is divided into two diets, B and C. They were different for different prisoners and what their crimes were politically.
Walking through the outside part of the prison.
In a prison cell. Spencer doesn't seem happy to be in there at all.
Each prison cell had information about one of the prisoners that stayed there. We went into the first one and it was the one where the guy who's prison card we saw.
Information about him, and what he went through.
The small shelf in the cell.
Hallway to go and see Nelson Mandela's cell.
This is where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. And that was all he had in the cell. The red bucket was the bathroom.
Not much, but what a great leader that came from this spot!
The outside courtyard area. This is where they would do exercises but also work on things like chipping away at stone.
It was interesting to see what the prison looked like and all that those men who were trying to change the political climate in South Africa had to go through.
2 comments:
Its amazing and sad. And interesting they got fed better or worse, depending on what they were in for.
I can't believe that story about the wet walls. brrrrr! Sad. I thought the food thing was interesting too.
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