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.
This is not a museum to hatred. Visiting Robben Island should provide a lesson in reconciliation.. After Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Rivonia trial, he spent 18 years on Robben Island as Prisoner 466/64 â the 466th prisoner registered in 1964. In 1982 he was transferred to Pollsmoor prison near Cape Town, and later to the low-security Victor Verster prison near Paarl in the Western Cape, from where he was released in 1990.