The Umbrella Men: Escape from Robben Island is a new South African film directed by John Barker that serves as a sequel to 2022’s The Umbrella Men. Co-written by Barker and Philip Roberts, the ...

FORMER Namibian Robben Island prisoners will reunite with their South African counterparts on 27 September at the island, marking a historic occasion of remembrance and solidarity.

Mandela was held at Robben Island prison for 18 of his 27 years behind bars in South Africa. In 1964, he was sentenced to life in prison for plotting to overthrow South Africa's racist apartheid ...

FIFA's executive committee will hold a meeting on Thursday on Robben Island which lies in the middle of Cape Town's Table Bay and was for more than 18 years the jail that housed Nelson Mandela.

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 ...

This Mandela Day, discover how the enduring legacy of Nelson Mandela can inspire personal transformation through vision, ...

Nelson Mandela was one of the most important leaders of 20th and 21st centuries - find out about his story here.

ROBBEN ISLAND, South Africa, June 14 (Reuters) - A small but much-prized soccer trophy on display in a cell of Robben Island prison is a reminder of how football touched the lives of the activists ...

African penguins are a popular sight on South Africa’s Robben Island. Before the fall of apartheid, Nelson Mandela, the country’s first democratically elected president, was held as a ...

This is Robben Island, the South African prison where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years incarcerated. Here, the ocean was repurposed as a prison wall.