Striking and evocative, tables that blend wooden elements with a blue-tinted resin make you feel like you’re gazing at the sea. With the pale wood tones standing in for sand and seaside rocks ...

The Robben Island Museum was started in the early 1990s as South Africa achieved political freedom and was setting out to reinvent itself. It was a highly symbolic part of the once-in-generation ...

In our book, Robben Island Rainbow Dreams which will be published on 24 September, we map out the making and breaking of an institution, with hard lessons and truths about the early years.

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 ...

New York auction house Guernsey's has postponed the sale of some of the South African leader's belongings, including the key to his cell and the shirt he wore when he was released from Robben Island.

The key to the prison cell on Robben Island once occupied by Nelson Mandela is going to be returned to South Africa rather than be auctioned in the US, a minister says.

Robert Gore-Langton eschews the shopping malls of Cape Town in favour of a poignant visit to Robben Island, a mighty landmark in South Africa's story. Nelson Mandela was held here for 18 of his 27 ...

Vusumzi Mcongo is a former political prisoner, who served 12 years on Robben Island, which is 5.5 miles offshore from Cape Town, South Africa.He was arrested at the age of 26 and released in 1990.

South Africa's first democratically elected president was imprisoned for 27 years, 18 of which were spent on Robben Island, a harsh environment off the Cape Town coast. The cull is intended to ...

South Africa's Robben Island Museum is an institution limping though a pandemic, and weighed down by its roller coaster history. In our book, Robben Island Rainbow Dreams which will be published ...

In our book, Robben Island Rainbow Dreams which will be published on 24 September, we map out the making and breaking of an institution, with hard lessons and truths about the early years.