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Nelson Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the brutal Robben Island Prison, a former leper colony off the coast of Cape Town, where he was confined to a small cell without a bed or plumbing and compelled to do hard labor in a lime quarry.
Trials and prisons chronology. 2 December 1952. Nelson Mandela is charged, with 19 others, including Walter Sisulu, for violating the Suppression of Communism Act. They are convicted and sentenced to nine months' hard labour, suspended for two years. 21 March 1960. Sixty-nine peaceful protesters are killed by police at Sharpeville.