Tourists take photos on Robben Island in Cape Town, South Africa, on May 8, 2026. Robben Island is known as the site where ...

Ahead of the historic Robben Island Prisoners Reunion, scheduled for 26 to 27 September, the President H.E. Dr Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah honoured Namibia’s former political prisoners and their families.

ROBBEN ISLAND, South Africa, June 14 (Reuters) - A small but much-prized soccer trophy on display in a cell of Robben Island prison is a reminder of how football touched the lives of the activists ...

Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island, by Ashwin Desai is a slender volume that contains a gigantic book. Time seems to bend, slow down, expand and contract as we read it, as the eons of ...

AFA copy 39088019764646 is a gift from Janet Stanley. Robben Island-best known as the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for eighteen years-has been a place of harshness and brutality; its ...

The Robben Island Museum plans to turn former prison guard houses into overnight accommodations. Photo Credit: Nicola Pulham/Shutterstock The Robben Island Museum in South Africa has announced plans ...

In the forward to Nelson Mandela’s 2010 book of letters, President Barack Obama wrote that “even when little sunlight shined into that Robben Island cell, he could see a better future — one worthy of ...

Robben Island Museum is now hiring for key roles after announcing its plan to introduce tourist accommodation on the heritage site.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - World soccer's leaders meet this week on an island notorious for its once brutal prison but where the game offered relief and hope for hundreds of anti-apartheid activists.

Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island, by Ashwin Desai is a slender volume that contains a gigantic book. Time seems to bend, slow down, expand and contract as we read it, as the eons of ...