Cell of Mandela excites tourists from all over the world

Robben Island, the former prison island of South Africa, a few miles off the coast of Cape Town, the international fame the prisoner 46664.

Nelson Mandela spent 18 of the 27 years here who was sentenced during the apartheid regime.

The last political prisoners left the island in 1991. Former defendants, now converted into guides, evoke living conditions of an extreme hardness.

Some remember Nelson Mandela. The visit to the cell leaves no one indifferent. A hole in hell that became a symbol of freedom and personal liberation.

A Palestinian student expresses what you felt:

"See this cell, where he spent most of his time in that he was stuck here, is very inspiring. No matter how horrible it is, also gives hope, because it makes us feel that we can achieve what we propose to us if we try with tenacity. It was amazing to see the blanket and all the little things. "

Buses take tourists to the crater where the prisoners worked eight hours a day, many of them were sick with tuberculosis, and the dust of stones which went and carried dried her eyes.

'' He impressed me a lot, what I saw. I will never forget the moments we lived here, on Robben Island. Especially Mandela's cell. Lived in inhumane conditions and had the kindness and greatness of mind enough to forgive what they did "

The prison system reflected the racial segregation that lived abroad. Black prisoners had a less varied food and wore shorts to demonstrate a lack of maturity.

But political prisoners from Robben Island, of anti-apartheid organisations, were able to organize life and support with enormous dignity humiliations to demonstrate that the human spirit is stronger than adversity.

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