FILE – Nelson Mandela, left, and former US president Bill Clinton look to the outside from Mandela’s Robben Island prison cell in Cape Town, South Africa, March 27, 1998. The key is among Mandela memorabilia being sold by Guernsey’s auction house in New York on Jan. 28. “This key belongs to the people of South Africa under the care of Robben Island Museum and the South African State. The key to his former jail cell is one of three items put up for sale by Christo Brand, Mandela’s Robben Island jailer. The key also freed him and he went from prisoner to president of South Africa and became the inspiration for millions of people around the world.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 25, 2021 00:44 UTC