Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi is Chairperson of Transformation Committee of the Wits School of Education. He is on the Advisory Board Member of America’s Voices Against Apartheid. Andre Odendaal has ...

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 ...

The first mention of an attempted swim from Robben Island to the mainland is found in a short article in the Cape Times of ...

Time stands still on Robben Island. Seconds become minutes, minutes stretch into hours, and the weight of history settles into the limestone walls that once confined dreamers of a different, ...

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 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 ...

Weeds are about the only thing remaining amid the sandy bumps of the soccer field that served the prisoners on the infamous island where Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists were held.

A Cape Town TikToker has apologised over her 'white privilege' video calling for Robben Island to become a party ...

Perhaps someone such as former MLS deputy commissioner Ivan Gazidis could truly understand the significance and symbolism of the FIFA Executive Committee holding a meeting on this island that has ...

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