Plans to auction off the key that kept Nelson Mandela ... an auction of items belonging to Mandela — including the key to his Robben Island prison cell — later this month.

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(We most recently updated this post at 1:50 p.m. ET.) After visiting the jail cell on South Africa's Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison during the long struggle ...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela died today at the age of 95, after succumbing to a long battle with a lung infection. He served as the first black president of South Africa and ...

Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb on Thursday talks about the influence that Nelson Mandela had ... who was in high school when Mandela was released from prison in 1990.

The planned auction of the key to the prison cell that once held South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela has been suspended, the auctioneers said Friday.

Nelson Mandela's cell in Robben Island Wode Maya took to his TikTok page to share a historical video of him visiting Nelson Mandela's prison cell in Robben Island, South Africa. In the video ...

JOHANNESBURG – The offer caused an outcry: The highest bidder in a South African charity event would get a "once-in-a-lifetime" chance to spend the night in Nelson Mandela's prison cell ...

As Saths told me, the younger and older prison cell neighbors played tennis and ... after the infamous Sharpeville massacre and after Nelson Mandela went underground and eventually was imprisoned.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela died ... in an 8-foot by 7-foot concrete cell with only a straw mat to sleep on. He was eventually released from prison on Feb. 2, 1990.