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Robben Island has served many functions. Most famously, it was the political prison that housed Nelson Mandela, the deceased South African president, for 18 years. In the 19th century, it served ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Terry RichardWomen from Lesoto break into a song in one of the cells at Robben Island. They had ridden the bus 1,200 miles from their landlocked country (entirely surrounded by South Africa ...

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 ...

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 ...