Maximum Security Prison
Prison building
Map

Maximum Security Prison is an inactive prison at Robben Island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometers (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. It was prominant because of Nobel Laureate and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was imprisoned there for 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid. After that, three former inmates of this prison Nelson Mandela, Kgalema Motlanthe,[1] and Jacob Zuma have gone on to become President of South Africa.

List of former prisoners

Former prison cells and corridor on Robben Island
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