Robben Island’s 500-year history reads like a depraved thriller, but it’s well worth a visit.

1. Introduction: prison as a source of politics -- 2. Politics and prison: a background -- 3. Resistance for survival -- 4. Resistance beyond survival -- 5. Prisoner politics and organization on ...

The Robben Island Museum plans to turn former prison guard houses into overnight accommodations. Photo Credit: Nicola Pulham/Shutterstock The Robben Island Museum in South Africa has announced plans ...

Just 10 kilometers off the coast of Cape Town sits Robben Island, the infamous prison where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years during South Africa’s apartheid era. For centuries the island served as a ...

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AFA copy 39088019764646 is a gift from Janet Stanley. Robben Island-best known as the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for eighteen years-has been a place of harshness and brutality; its ...

ROBBEN ISLAND, South Africa, June 14 (Reuters) - A small but much-prized soccer trophy on display in a cell of Robben Island prison is a reminder of how football touched the lives of the activists ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - World soccer's leaders meet this week on an island notorious for its once brutal prison but where the game offered relief and hope for hundreds of anti-apartheid activists.

Robben Island Museum has launched its NextGenHeritage Free Pass, giving South African children under the age of 15 free entry ...

Today is Nelson Mandela International Day. Nelson Mandela spent the greatest number of years that he was in prison - 18 out of 27 on Robben Island (South Africa) World Heritage site. Robben Island was ...

The items are owned by Mandela’s daughter Makaziwe and former Robben Island warden Christo Brand. A South African appeals court has ruled against a government heritage agency’s attempt to prevent the ...