Because he spent all of his prison time there:
Robben Island
Polsmoor Prison
Victor Vester Prison
Michael Jackson meets Nelson Mandela in Cape Town on March 25th 1999,to discuss the charity conserts Michael was going to perform in Munich and Seoul where the procceds would go to Nelson Mandela's children's charity.
The traditional games of Cape Town are imprison innocent black men. Ask Nelson Mandela, he is well versed in these things.
In Qunu, a town near Umtata, Transkei (now in the Eastern Cape province).
Robben Island (prison for political prisoners in Table Bay, Cape Town) Polsmoor Prison (Tokai, Cape Town) Victor Vester Prison (Paarl, Cape Town)
Nelson mandela
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years, and 18 of those on the rocky quarry off the coast of Cape Town which is Robben Island. He was a leader of the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela, on the day of his release from prison on 11 February 1990, made his first speech to the nation from the steps of the city hall in Cape Town and said: "We call on our white compatriots to join us in the shaping of a new South Africa."
Cape Town is not an island- it is a city situated on the mainland at the tip of the African continent. Part of the greater city stretching from Table Mountain to Cape point lies on a peninsula, surrounded by the waters of False Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The notable island, which lies just off Cape Town, is Robben Island, famous place of imprisonment of Nelson Mandela.
The oldest hotel in Cape town would be the:Mount Nelson, followed by the Vineyard Hotel
Polokwane, Tshwane/Pretoria, Rustenburg, Nelspruit, Johannesburg, Mangaung/ Bloemfontein, Durban, Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth.
1.South Africa 2.Springboks 3.Nelson Mandela 4.Great White Shark 5.Dutch 6.Table Mountain 7.Braai 8.11
Nelson Mandela's father Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, who at one time served as chief of the town of Mvezo. Mandela's father had four wives, with whom he fathered a total of thirteen children (four boys and nine girls). Mandela was born to his third wife ('third' by a complex royal ranking system), Nosekeni Fanny.