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 ...

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.

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 ...

It was the Alcatraz of South Africa, a grim island outpost off the coast of Cape Town. The inmates of Robben Island, unlike those on The Rock, were political prisoners: Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisul… ...

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 ...

US President Barack Obama took a tour of Robben Island and went inside the cell where Nelson Mandela was held by South Africa's former apartheid government. Image caption, He visited the jail with ...

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

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.

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 ...

FIFA's executive committee will hold a meeting on Thursday on Robben Island which lies in the middle of Cape Town's Table Bay and was for more than 18 years the jail that housed Nelson Mandela.

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 ...