It honours the lives of 12 political prisoners who died on Robben Island and were buried in a mass grave at the former whites-only cemetery. The “12 Disciples of Justice” memorial exhibition ...

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 prison museum and teachers joined forces to stimulate bright young minds with a spring school programme at the ...

The culling of the island's animals will happen at night and be done by a professional hunter. Nelson Mandela's former prison on Robben Island is now a popular tourist attraction. The island is ...

His father, Costa, was a political prisoner in this country for two years in the 1960s. While Costa wasn't imprisoned on Robben Island -- that was reserved for black and colored political ...

and the stark and functional maximum security prison of the apartheid period that began in the 1960s. To highlight the significance of Robben Island, and as part of marking Heritage Month ...

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

Commerce, culture and heritage mix in rather strange and sometimes unsettling ways in South Africa, especially when the struggle for freedom is commemorated.

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