The move comes as part of the celebrations to mark the 89th birthday of Nelson Mandela, Robben Island's most famous captive, on 18 July.
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Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj, a prisoner on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela in the 1960s and 70s, said on Saturday that Mr Mandela had been admitted to hospital "due to a recurrence of pneumonia".
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Similarly, in Cape Town's Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held prisoner for 18 years during apartheid in South Africa, tours of the maximum security prison are led by former political prisoners.
In the summer, free movies are projected onto one of the silos on Friday nights and a bar in a converted shipping container serves up Kiwi craft beer from microbreweries including Auckland-based Hallertau and Stoke Beer from the South Island city of Nelson.
And he added that the five inspectors were all "extremely moved" by Nelson Mandela welcoming them onto Robben Island, the island off Cape Town where the former president spent 18 years in prison under apartheid, on Wednesday.
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To Nelson Mandela and his fellow prisoners on Robben Island it was a beacon of hope.
Arriving in the 1840s, European settlers found the Nelson region at the top of the South Island perfect for the propagation of hops.
Mr. Doran decided to set the play in Africa after learning that Nelson Mandela had read it while imprisoned on Robben Island.
They are working with the island's new police commissioner, Gary Nelson, who comes hotfoot from 35 years with Ottawa's city police.
In 1990, Nelson Mandela returned to South Africa's notorious Robben Island and said "the emotions ran wild" when he met prisoners in the jail where he spent 20 years of his life.
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