Robben Island, one of Cape Town’s most popular tourist attractions, will be closed to the public starting this month. Reports say the museum on the iconic island will undergo maintenance and ...

Tourists take photos on Robben Island in Cape Town, South Africa, on May 8, 2026. Robben Island is known as the site where ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: The ferry ride to Robben Island can be quite choppy. If you tend to get queasy, visit the museum at the Cape Town ferry dock and also consider the free Apartheid to Freedom ...

The former prison on Robben Island off Cape Town, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years, is an international tourist icon. But the site is plagued by a host of troubles, including alleged ...

It was the Alcatraz of South Africa, a grim island outpost off the coast of Cape Town. The inmates of Robben Island, unlike those on The Rock, were political prisoners: Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, ...

ComingSoon has an exclusive look at the first trailer for Known Associates Entertainment’s The Umbrella Men: Escape from Robben Island. The Umbrella Men: Escape from Robben Island is a new South ...

The low, scrubby oval of Robben Island, a few miles offshore, can be made out from any of the heights around Cape Town. During the apartheid era, it was a kind of Purgatory in plain sight for those ...

Robben Island – for centuries a place of banishment, exile, imprisonment and pain. Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images South Africa’s Robben Island Museum is an institution ...

The official symbolism of the Robben Island Museum, adopted early in its existence, is "the triumph of the human spirit over adversity". But after 24 years in existence, the museum is substandard.

Our Robben Island tour guide, Benjamin, became committed to armed struggle when his pregnant girlfriend was shot through the mouth and killed during the countrywide uprisings against South Africa's ...