Mandela Rhodes Place

... side! Get on the left side, Alain!!"     Angela and I were both pretty tired when we got to Mandela Rhodes Place. But seeing our apartment for the first time was a very hollistic experience. This place is AMAZING!! I can't believe we ...

... an apartment complex that could rival any top building in NYC, LA or Miami, and it's in the heart of Cape Town (Mandela Rhodes Place).  We are immediately enthralled by this setting and we decided to join in the fun.  Turns out the building also ...

Breakfast at the Mandela Rhodes Hotel/Apartment is amazing!  The restaurant is on the roof by the pool and the spread is the best we have yet to see.  We have our fill before collecting Christine and heading for the Cape.  Our paragliding ...

... .  The statues depict South Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners: Albert Luthuli, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Willem DeKlerk, and Nelson Mandela. Next morning we met our local guide, Heidi, and our Cape Town bus driver, Leon.  It was a little ...

... wines, but they did an incredibly good Sweet Red, that goes very well with blue cheese. We drove past Drakenstein prision where Mandela was kept until 1990, (which is still a working prision for petty criminals, we saw them playing football as we drove ...

... became known as the University. The young gurads, too, would leave their posts to come learn from the prisoners - something Mandela always encouraged, seeking engagement with the enemy, seeing them as equally victimized by a vicious society. It was very ...

... known as the University. The young gurads, too, would leave their posts to come learn from the prisoners – something Mandela always encouraged, seeking engagement with the enemy, seeing them as equally victimized by a vicious society. It was very ...

... die in the violence that erupted in the 1980's between the pro and anti-apartheid movements.   Thousands did die but eventually Nelson Mandela, the head of the ANC, was let out of prison in 1990 (after 27 years) and formed a new government in ...

Day 6 - Monday 18/04/11 We took a few friends' advice and booked ahead for tickets to go to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was in prison for 15 years.We got a guided tour by a previous detainee, a political prisoner for 5 years, and therefore got ...

... and almost dictatorial in it’s top down, unremovable government system. She said that because people still think ANC means Mandela rather than separatism; the least educated will carry on voting them in while the country goes down the pan. She ...

... mint sauce. Wednesday was a similar day as far as plans went. I had booked a ticket to go to Robben Island to see Nelson Mandela's prision, however when I got the ticket out of my bag at lunchtime, I realised it had been booked for the day before - fook. ...

... top hats banging away at this high altitude. 2. Taking a ferry to Robben Island and a tour through the prison where Nelson Mandela spent 28 years. The weight of the history was sobering and the fog rolled over the island, enveloping it in an eerie ...