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How Robben Island incarceration made Mandela

Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island. The conditions would have broken most men, but in many ways, they made Mandela. Eddie Daniels, a fellow prisoner of Robben Island, describes what life was like there. Allen Pizzey reports.
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