The busload of tourists on Robben Island grew quiet as Yasien Mohamed, our 63-year-old guide, gestured to a bleak limestone quarry on the side of the road. It was here, he said, that Nelson ...

Members of the portfolio committee on Sports, Arts & Culture say it is essential for staff at the Robben Island Museum to ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: The ferry ride to Robben Island can be quite choppy. If you tend to get queasy, visit the museum at the Cape Town ferry dock and also consider the free Apartheid to Freedom ...

When speaking about Robben Island, the name is often synonymous with Nelson Mandela and the struggle against the apartheid regime. However, on 31st March 2025, the Robben Island Museum hosted a ...

As part of his school’s Grade 11 project, Luca Amerseder was required to pick a challenge involving research and a practical ...

Robben Island, one of Cape Town’s most visited attractions, has more to offer than just the ferry ride there and the prison ...

As part of his Grade 11 school project at Michael Mount Waldorf, Luca Amerseder will be swimming to raise R20,000 for Genesis ...

In his memoir of surviving the brutal apartheid prison Robben Island, South African activist Sedick Isaacs recalls an extraordinary event about which little has been recorded - "the creation and ...

Symbolically, the event, which took the form of a relay, saw the swimmers cross the 7.4km stretch from Robben Island to ...

Off the coast of Cape Town, Robben Island is home to African penguins, whose future is by no means assured. Ariadne Van Zandbergen / Africa Imagery Of the world’s 17 penguin species, perhaps the ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

Robben Island was used at various times between the 17th and 20th centuries as a prison, a hospital for socially unacceptable groups and a military base. Its buildings, particularly those of the late ...