In 1846 the island was turned into a leper colony. From 1961 to 1991, a maximum-security prison here held enemies of apartheid. In 1997, three years after apartheid fell, the prison was turned ...

Travel Agent’s Senior Editor Joe Pike recently returned from South Africa, where he came back with a wealth of selling points for agents looking to book this phenomenal African getaway. But ...

Robben Island sits in South Africa’s Table Bay, only 4.5 miles (7 kilometers) from Cape Town’s beaches, in a rather spectacular physical setting. But this island is no pleasure resort. Instead ...

life inside robben island maximum security prison A typical day in the prison saw many inmates forced to do labour work in the island’s limestone quarry, from 7.30am to about 4pm, seven days a week.

With the renovations under way, the museum saw an increase in tourists visiting the island with an estimated number of 86 622 ...

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 locked up there by the apartheid regime.

Robben Island Museum could collapse back into its former "dysfunctional state" if a small group of employees succeed in halting its restructuring, the museum's interim chief executive warned.

Robert S., an incarcerated man at SCI Chester, said he doesn’t have a problem with prison museums, but organizers should make sure that people have an understanding of the effect on the people who ...

Cape Town - The Robben Island Museum (RIM) council has declared 2023/24 as the year of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.. Sobukwe was a prominent South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and is the ...

life inside robben island maximum security prison A typical day in the prison saw many inmates forced to do labour work in the island’s limestone quarry, from 7.30am to about 4pm, seven days a week.

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 ...