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 ...

Plans to auction off the key that kept Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa and legendary anti-apartheid activist, behind bars are off. The auction house, New York City-based ...

In Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela described his Robben Island cell as "tiny – I could walk from one side to the other in three steps". Since the island reopened as a museum in 1997, thousands of ...

Every week, Inside Africa takes its viewers on a journey across Africa, exploring the true diversity and depth of different cultures, countries and regions. Robben Island has served many functions.

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 ...

Struggle veteran Mzi Khumalo looks back at his time on Robben Island and decodes lessons for a new generation of leaders. The conditions and circumstances that shaped leaders such as Walter Sisulu and ...

I read the headline twice because I thought I had misunderstood it. Former prison guard houses on Robben Island may be converted into tourist accommodation. At first, I assumed it was satire. It felt ...

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 ...

Since 1998, the Robben Island Spring School programme has brought together pupils, teachers, ambassadors, organisations and professionals. This year, more than 70 diverse pupils tackled pressing ...