Cape Town is South Africa's crown jewel and the most European city you'll find on the continent. Founded by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, it was South Africa's first attempt at a modern ...

The first mention of an attempted swim from Robben Island to the mainland is found in a short article in the Cape Times of 1876, neatly filed in the South African National Library. One can only assume ...

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.

There isn't much to see in the Robben Island cell, which confined Nelson Mandela for 18 years of his 27-year incarceration. The duo chrome box measures just eight by seven feet. Its cement walls are ...

Swimmer Ryan Stramrood broke the record for most open water crossings from mainland South Africa and Robben Island. On June 17, Stramrood crossed for the 109 th time, Zwemza reported. Robben Island ...

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.

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 ...

Former political prisoners will gather for a special reunion at the Robben Island Museum in Cape Town on Saturday, 27 September. The event is organised with the Association for Ex-Political Prisoners ...

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 ...

Richard Webster (age 59) a long-standing volunteer RNLI lifeguard, has successfully swam the Cadiz Freedom Swim, an extreme 7 ...