Five days ahead of Freedom Day, Google Street View has expanded into Robben Island, the former political prison that once housed Nelson Mandela.

CAPE TOWN - The Robben Island Museum will be launching its new Walking Tour from Friday, December 31. The tour will allow visitors to explore the island’s history and biodiversity and tickets are ...

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 ...

, the main tourist site in Cape Town. Besides having a shopping mall with stores as sharp as any in Portland, it's the location for the Robben Island tour. We bought tickets for the last cruise of the ...

We stood in the yard of Robben Island Prison, looking at the tennis court that some prisoners were allowed to use for exercise. "We would take a tennis ball, cut a small opening in it, put a note ...

Robben Island has served many functions. Most famously, it was the political prison that housed Nelson Mandela, the deceased South African president, for 18 years. In the 19th century, it served as a ...

CAPE TOWN - Robben Island Museum has halted all public tours to carry out maintenance and renovations in preparation for the G20 Summit in November. The work is expected to preserve the site's ...

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 ...

Robben Island, a cornerstone of South Africa's historical and cultural identity, is about to step into the global spotlight as the nation gears up to host the G20 summit later this year. As part of ...