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 ...

The town of Soweto is more than 760 miles (1,223km) from Robben Island. At a black history awards brunch in Las Vegas last week, he also said Mandela had thanked him for his efforts. "He threw his ...

She was left to raise two young daughters when her husband of four years, Nelson Mandela, was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to life in prison on the notorious Robben Island prison. An activist in ...

Brand was 19 in 1978 when he began working as a guard at Robben Island, where Mandela and other activists were doing hard labor. Prison guards told Brand they were terrorists, but he learned to ...

THE government has been accused of “succumbing to Israeli pressure” after it blocked the grandson of Nelson Mandela from ...

Robben Island, one of Cape Town’s top attractions ... and insights about former president, Nelson Mandela. The tour is ...

It was a morning filled with learning and adventure as learners from Kalksteenfontein Primary School enjoyed a trip to Robben Island recently ... We all look at Nelson Mandela as a global leader. We ...

There is a disturbing trend of people travelling to the sadder places of the world: sites of military attacks, war zones and ...

They held so much history—and humour, too—since there certainly weren’t any tennis courts on Robben Island! “But Mandela always had a playful spirit,” Van Wezel was quoted as saying.