For nearly 500 years, Robben Island was used as a dumping ground for people considered dangerous, undesirable, or politically ...

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 ...

For decades, the island was a towering emblem of punishment—first for enslaved labourers and lepers under colonial rule and ...

Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi is Chairperson of Transformation Committee of the Wits School of Education. He is on the Advisory Board Member of America’s Voices Against Apartheid. Andre Odendaal has ...

The official symbolism of the Robben Island Museum, adopted early in its existence, is "the triumph of the human spirit over adversity". But after 24 years in existence, the museum is substandard.

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 Sisulu, ...

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 as a ...

Plans to auction off the key that kept Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa and legendary anti-apartheid activist, behind bars are off. The auction house, New York City-based ...