For decades, the island was a towering emblem of punishment—first for enslaved labourers and lepers under colonial rule and ...

United States Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, Senior Director for African Affairs Grant Harris and Senior Director for Development and Democracy Gayle Smith, via a conference call, ...

Milwana "Sparky" Sparks, just a teenager, thought his life was over when he was sentenced to the notorious Robben Island Prison. "I never thought I'd leave," he said, showing visitors around the South ...

Travel Agent’s Senior Editor Joe Pike recently returned from South Africa, where he came back with a wealth of selling points for agents looking to book this phenomenal African getaway. But nothing ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - The former prison on Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years is an international tourist icon. But the site is plagued by a host of troubles, including alleged ...

President Obama and his family on Sunday visited South Africa’s Robben Island, the jail where anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years. The first family paid tribute to Mandela ...

CAPE TOWN - African National Congress (ANC) president, Cyril Ramaphosa, said that Nelson Mandela's prison cell at Robben Island reminded him of his own experience behind bars. ANC leaders visited the ...

In the tumultuous time following the U.S. presidential election, misinformation and conspiracy theories thrived on social media, entangling prominent politicians in outlandish claims. In a Jan. 17 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA presidential candidate Gianni Infantino will round off his election campaign with a visit to Robben Island, the former apartheid-era prison in South Africa, a source close to ...