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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unless you can journey halfway across the globe to Cape Town and visit Robben Island, "A Prisoner in the ... is what is apparent in all of the book's pictures of him: a man supremely at ease ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robben Island was used at various times between the 17th and 20th centuries as a prison, a hospital for socially unacceptable groups and a military base. Its buildings, particularly those of the late ...