Department Correction Service Pollsmoor Prison

In March 1982, South African President Mandela was transferred to Polsmoor Prison, where Mandela and three others were placed in a penthouse apartment with four regular beds, bed sheets and towels. At Polsmoor Prison, he wakes up at 5 a.m. and exercises in a public room for an hour and a half. The same exercise is repeated every day: running, skipping rope, sitting up, push-ups.

One of the places to miss great people is in a scenic Cape Town area, with the Stan Tiaberg Mountains to the north and hundreds of hectares of vineyards to the south.

South Africa has many prisons, mainly for political prisoners, and some are now open for visits and browsing.

Really good. Very good place to go. The ticket service staff will be more kind to talk.

Polsmoor prison looks like a temple, but you can't go in and see, and you want to know how their prisoners live.