The "university" of robben Island was a cave where the prisoners learned and studied and educated themselves. Quite an inspiration which many students take for granted who receive free education. At the lime quarry in the Cave where prisoners taught each other, recited poems and presented lectures. Due to the extreme light and dust, most prisoners suffered from "snow blindness". Nelson Mandela had to undergo surgery to restore the lachrymal ducts of his chronically inflamed eyes.
P.s Don't let the guards find you spending to much time there, so in order to get the most of your education the prisons would go to the toilet early in the morning ( as the cave was only ment for this ) and then they would fill the buckets up with sand pretending to have used the toilet in the cave. In this time they would learn how to write in the sand.
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