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 ...

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 ...

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

, 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 ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN (AP, AFP) - United States President Barack Obama toured South Africa's Robben Island, where former South African President Nelson Mandela spent 18 years in a tiny cell as a political ...