To Nelson Mandela and his fellow prisoners on Robben Island it was a beacon of hope.
Eighteen years were spent on the windswept Robben Island where he contracted tuberculosis.
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He first contracted tuberculosis in the 1980s while detained in Robben Island prison.
Mr. Doran decided to set the play in Africa after learning that Nelson Mandela had read it while imprisoned on Robben Island.
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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Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has a history of lung problems dating back to when he was a political prisoner on Robben Island during apartheid.
He first contracted tuberculosis in the 1980s while imprisoned at Robben Island and has been admitted to hospital on three occasions in the past two years.
He spent the first 18 years at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town, South Africa, and later spent time at Pollsmoor prison and Victor Verster Prison, closer to the mainland.
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 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.
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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It is still not clear exactly which grape variety is growing on Robben Island, but Mr Jonker believes the quality will be high, and is now trying to research the world of charity auctions.
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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They make an emotional visit to the prison on Robben Island where their grandfather spent 18 of his 27 years imprisoned by the apartheid regime, NBCUniversal, the American corporate owner of the show's broadcaster, said in a statement.
After the end of apartheid and the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, Mr Kathrada sometimes took visiting delegations and VIPs on guided tours of the notorious Robben Island jail where he and Mr Mandela had been incarcerated.
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