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 ...

Pirow identified Robben Island as a strategically positioned site at the entrance of Table Bay, making it an ideal location for a new military base. He subsequently declared the entire island ...

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 is best known as the site of the former ... It was a GPS device that records location, depth of dives, temperature of the water and other information. “We’ll retrieve the logger ...

Her chosen mission – an 8km swim across the open ocean from Robben Island to Eden on the Bay in Big Bay – which she recently completed. "It was the perfect day. The water was 16°C which meant no brain ...