JOHANNESBURG - A 17-year-old is desperately trying to escape Robben Island. Luca Amerseder has taken his school assignment to a whole new level. The scope was to choose a project involving ...

Sixteen-year-old Luca Amerseder is preparing to cross the icy Atlantic Ocean from Robben Island to Cape Town, all in the name of charity and personal growth. Picture: Supplied. JOHANNESBURG ...

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 ...

Her chosen mission -an 8km swim across the open ocean from Robben Island to Eden on the Bay in Big Bay - which she recently completed. "It was the perfect day. The water was 16°C which meant no brain ...

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 ...

This association, founded by Robben Island political prisoners in 1966, holds significant historical and cultural value. Speaking exclusively to Soccer Laduma, Luyanda Papu of the New Year’s Cup ...

Ahamed Kathrada, friend and advisor to Nelson Mandela said of Robben Island, where Mandela was imprisoned for close to 30 years, that “While we will not forget the brutality of apartheid, we will not ...

Robben Island, an iconic UNESCO World Heritage site and a vital sanctuary for over 130 species of birds, will see a massive coastal clean-up on Saturday, 1 March 2025. This initiative will help ...

Public Works and Infrastructure Deputy Minister Sihle Zikalala says he is satisfied with the progress being made to spruce up the Robben Island Museum and preserve its iconic heritage site status.

In his memoir of surviving the brutal apartheid prison Robben Island, South African activist Sedick Isaacs recalls an extraordinary event about which little has been recorded - "the creation and ...

This comes after weekend reports indicated that Mbalula used a yacht to travel to Robben Island instead of the ferry. The party was in the Western Cape over the weekend, where it celebrated its ...

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa visits Nelson Mandela’s prison cell on Robben Island. Picture: X.com/MYANC CAPE TOWN - African National Congress (ANC) president ...