'Matthew Hahn’s The Robben Island Shakespeare is indeed a manual for both the young and old in South Africa and the world, to help us charter the difficult journey of life and the survival of the human spirit, UBUNTU, against all odds.'
- Tony Award Winning Actor and South African Cultural Activist John Kani, in his introduction to The Robben Island Shakespeare.
Monday, 24 November 2008
As Slept In by the Famous Nelson Mandela
on our last day on the island, masie & i walked around specifically looking for the first prison that mandela stayed in during his first inprisonment on Robben Island before the Rivonia Trials which imprisoned him for life.