The overcoach letters that political prisoner Mandela wrote from prison. The testimony of the hardest years of his life...
In 1962, when the South African apartheid regime was at its hardest, Nelson Mandela was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. He was 44 years old and all indicated that he would end his days in one of the toughest prisons in the world, Robben Island, a forced labor prison in front of Cape Town.
After spending 18 years in harsh conditions, he was transferred to the pollsmor penalties, first, and Victor Verster, afterwards. His living conditions improved markedly and he was able to write letters to his family, his co-religionists and various international personalities. These letters –thousands over the years? not only document a terrible time in the history of the world, but also shape Nelson Mandela's intimate and ideological portrait.
