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Article: Robben Island in South Africa reopens to thousands of tourists as museum, instead of prison that housed Nelson Mandela.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- March 18, 1997
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ROBBEN ISLAND, South Africa _ The half-hour boat ride to Robben Island is much less ominous now to Eddie Daniels than it was when he first took the voyage 33 years ago.
In 1964, Daniels traveled to the island shackled in the hold of a ferry whose portholes had been painted black, preventing him from seeing the slowly receding skyline of his hometown, Cape Town. He was condemned to the bleak prison to serve a 15-year sentence for sabotage.
One day recently the same vessel that carried Daniels as a prisoner ferried him and about 140 other tourists to the island, where they were greeted at the dock by smiling tour guides dressed in bright African ...