Members of the portfolio committee on Sports, Arts & Culture say it is essential for staff at the Robben Island Museum to understand the correct history of the Island and South Africa. Arts and ...

Robben Island is where many liberation struggle stalwarts, who gave birth to the new South Africa, were imprisoned during apartheid. During his visit to monitor progress being made to revitalise ...

The video is from 2013, when Obama and his family visited Nelson Mandela’s prison cell in Robben Island, South Africa. Obama, of course, has not been arrested or held at the Guantanamo Bay ...

After 30 years in which the African National Congress has been the undisputed party of government in South Africa ... young pregnant mothers to Robben island. These trends look certain to ...

The choice of venue for this meeting is no coincidence. Thirty years ago, South Africa was liberated from apartheid. In 1999, Robben Island and its prison buildings were inscribed on the UNESCO World ...

SanParks is set to commence with a consultative process on the Table Mountain National Park’s Robben Island Marine Protected ... conservation footprint of South Africa and contribute to the ...

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Sihle Zikalala admitted that the ANC-led government has failed to do regular maintenance of the Robben Island Heritage Site, leading to decaying infrastructure ...

Since 1994, South Africa has seen three notable changes ... from the Eastern Cape rolling hills to Soweto, Howick, Robben Island, and Union Buildings. On 3 May, the SARB announced an update ...

Nothing prepares you for Robben Island. On a recent visit to Cape Town ... a triumph of courage and determination over human frailty and weakness; a triumph of the new South Africa over the old.” ...

Bidding was expected to begin at $250,000. Mandela was held at Robben Island prison for 18 of his 27 years behind bars in South Africa. In 1964, he was sentenced to life in prison for plotting to ...