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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An old apartheid propaganda film played on the ferry – Robben Eiland en Sy Mense (Robben ... Some of the commenters were former residents of the island during the apartheid regime. These pictures, ...

Relentlessly pounded by the angry surf and chilled by the icy winds of the south Atlantic, Robben Island is the unlikely cradle of South African democracy. That wasn’t exactly what the Dutch and ...