Hasta La Gadget!

The last time Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway saw South Africa’s infamous Robben Island penitentiary, she was just 8 months old and being smuggled in by a prison guard to see her grandfather. For many years, she couldn’t imagine making a trip back.

“We didn’t want to go for years and years, because that’s where my grandfather was,” Zaziwe, now 35, told The Huffington Post. “It was a painful place and we didn’t want to relive it,” she said, recalling the return visit she eventually made, along with her sister Swati Dlamini, 33, and other siblings.

Their grandfather, 94-year-old civil rights icon Nelson Mandela, hasn’t heard about the emotions the women’s trip to his old prison cell evoked, though he may when an episode of their reality TV show, “Being Mandela,” airs on the NBC-affiliated Cozi TV in the coming weeks.

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