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The ferry trip from the Waterfront takes about half an hour to reach the island.
After arrival you are taken on a bus tour around the island and a tour of prison.
The bus tour stops off at several historical landmarks, the first of which is a beautiful shrine built in memory of Tuan Guru, a Muslim cleric from present-day Indonesia who was imprisoned here by Dutch in the eighteenth century. On his release, he helped to establish Islam among slaves in Cape Town.
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The tour also passes a leper graveyard and church designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
Robert Sobukwe's house is perhaps the most affecting relic of incarceration on the island.
It was here that Sobukwe, leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (a radical offshoot of the ANC), was held in solitary confinement for nine years.
No other political prisoners were allowed to speak to him, but he would sometimes gesture his solidarity with them by letting sand trickle through his fingers as they walked past.
After his release in 1969, Sobukwe was restricted to Kimberley under house arrest, until his death from cancer in 1978.
Another stopoff is the lime quarry where Nelson Mandela and his fellow inmates spent countless hours of hard labour.
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The Maximum Security Prison, a forbidding complex of unadorned H-blocks on the edge of the island, is introduced with a tour through the famous B-section; you'll be guided by a former inmate, after which you're free to wander.
Mandela's cell has been left exactly as it was, without embellishments or display, but the rest have been left locked and empty.
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In the nearby A-section, the "Cell Stories" exhibition skilfully suggests the sparseness of prison life; the tiny isolation cells contain personal artefacts loaned by former prisoners, plus quotations, recordings and photographs.
Towards the end of the 1980s, cameras were sneaked onto the island, and inmates took snapshots of each other, which have been enlarged to almost life size and mounted as the Smuggled Camera Exhibition in the D-section communal cells.
The Living Legacy tour in F-section involves ex-political prisoners guides describing their lives here and answering your question.
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