ComingSoon has an exclusive look at the first trailer for Known Associates Entertainment’s The Umbrella Men: Escape from Robben Island. The Umbrella Men: Escape from Robben Island is a new South ...

Robben Island, one of Cape Town’s most popular tourist attractions, will be closed to the public starting this month. Reports say the museum on the iconic island will undergo maintenance and ...

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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 do ...

Discover how the new exhibition at Robben Island Museum, 'Solidarity in Action', showcases the vital support from Cuba and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Castle of Good Hope (1666–1679) is the oldest existing colonial building in South Africa, and was a bastion fort in the 17th century. Robben Island’s 18th century precint, which includes parts of ...