It was bringing his family to see him. It was Nov. 9, 1970, and the prisoner was Nelson Mandela, held on Robben Island for his leading role in planning bomb attacks. “A visit to a prison has a ...

Plans to auction off the key that kept Nelson Mandela ... to hold an auction of items belonging to Mandela — including the key to his Robben Island prison cell — later this month.

Relentlessly pounded by the angry surf and chilled by the icy winds of the south Atlantic, Robben Island is the unlikely ... maintained that tradition. Nelson Mandela, leader of the armed wing ...

The inmates of Robben Island, unlike those on The Rock, were political prisoners: Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Pan Africanist Congress founder Robert Sobukwe and others fighting apartheid in ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG - The power of ideas nourished Nelson Mandela during his confinement on Robben Island, but even this visionary might not have imagined the surreal scene planned for this month at the ...

In South Africa on Sunday, President Barack Obama visited Robben Island, the now-defunct island prison where former South African President Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years behind bars for ...

To get to Robben Island, you will have to take a ferry from the Nelson Mandela Gateway, located at the V&A Waterfront. The price of the ferry ride is included in the overall admission cost ...