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.
Fellow prisoner Ahmed Kathrada recalled that in Pollsmoor in 1985, Nelson Mandela was called to the prison office and then returned to his ANC colleagues and started reading the newspapers. After 20 years or more of us being in prison and that's how cool he wasâ¦ 'By the way this has happened', Mr Kathrada told me.