In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

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 ...

One of the more famous dark tourism destinations is South Africa’s Robben Island. The island is now a UNESCO World Heritage site located about 7 miles off the coast of Cape Town. It was once ...

Robben Island, one of Cape Town’s most visited attractions, has more to offer than just the ferry ride there and the prison ...

This true account is a significant contribution to documenting life in Apartheid South Africa. In looking wider than the inside of Robben Island, as one of South Africa’s most symbolic centres of ...

Stuurman also has the distinction of being the only person to have twice escaped from Robben Island - later known as one of the places where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated - off the coast of Cape ...

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South Africa's Robben Island is home to a number of animal species including deer, antelope and rabbits South Africa's Robben Island will cull 400 fallow deer which have overrun the island ...

Gangsterism, immigration, inequality and land reform. The big issues debated in Cape Town thirty years after the end of ...