African National Congress (ANC) president Nelson Mandela stares out of the window of the prison cell he occupied on Robben Island for much of his 27 year incarceration, February 11, 1994. (Getty Images)
That is a load of bollocks, he never spent 27 years on Robben Island, for much of his sentence he was living in a house on the grounds of Pollsmore Prison in the Western Cape.