Victor Verster Prison

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  • Victor Verster Prison was renamed in 2000 to Drakenstein Correction Centre
  • Low-security prison located between Paarl and Franschhoek in the Western Cape. Mandela was transferred there in 1988 from Pollsmoor Prison, and lived in a private house inside the prison compound. There is a statue of Mandela just outside the prison gates. Now named Drakenstein Correctional Centre.

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Victor Verster Prison

BT Paarl

Victor Verster Prison

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Victor Verster Prison

  • UF Drakenstein Correctional Centre

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NMF_Desk_Calender_12_038

  • NMPP-PC-NMPP-PC-2009/5.1-12-38
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  • 1989-09-04 - 1989-09-10

    • Part of Prison Collection

1 page of a printed desk calendar with handwritten notes covering the year of 1989. The calendar was used as a diary by Nelson Mandela while in prison and contains entries concerning matters such as visits, dreams, films, books, personal health and politics.

Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla

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