Comte is the French, Catalan and Occitan form of the word 'count' (Latin: comes); comtÃ© is the Gallo-Romance form of the word 'county' (Latin: comitatus). Comte may mean: a count in French, from Latin comes Auguste Comte (1798â1857), philosopher Louis Comte (1788â1859), magician RaphaÃ«l Comte (born 1979), Swiss politician.
In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to do hard labor in a quarry. He was allowed one visitor a year for 30 minutes.
A Journey Through Apartheid in Nelson Mandelaâs South Africa. Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela greet supporters as Nelson Mandela is freed from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl in the Cape in 1990. Mandela spent 27 years in prison, many of them on Robben Island. Protest against Chris Haniâs assassination, 1993.