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Jürgen Schadeberg (18 March 1931 [1] – 29 August 2020 [2]) was a German-born South African photographer and artist.He photographed key moments in South African history, [2] including iconic photographs such as Nelson Mandela at Robben Island prison. [3]
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Nelson Mandela's father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa Mandela, was a local chief and councillor to the monarch; he was appointed to the position in 1915, after his predecessor was accused of corruption by a governing white magistrate. [10]
After Mandela's release from prison on February 11, 1990, there would be other jobs: president of the ANC, and then, of course president of South Africa in 1994. It seemed a completely improbable ...
Robben Island Prison is an inactive prison on Robben Island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometers (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. 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.
A new documentary by Raoul Peck draws on a trove of photographs once thought lost. Released from a bank vault with no records attached, a mystery surrounds who put them there.
Mandela: The Official Exhibition, now open at The Henry Ford, will welcome Christo Brand, Mandela’s former prison guard turned lifelong friend.
James Gregory (7 November 1941 – 2003) was the censor officer and prison guard of Nelson Mandela for many years of his captivity. He later wrote the book Goodbye Bafana: Nelson Mandela, My Prisoner, My Friend, on which the 2007 film Goodbye Bafana was based. The book, and later the film, are based on the idea that Gregory and Mandela had ...