Up, is a vital initiative to protect endangered wildlife and combat marine pollution, with 150 volunteers collecting waste to ...

South Africa “has lost one of its greatest literary and theatrical icons, whose work shaped the cultural and social landscape ...

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 ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

But for a few lucky couples, it once held an extraordinary significance—especially for those who were blessed enough to say their vows at the historic Robben Island Chapel. The tradition began ...

In his memoir of surviving the brutal apartheid prison Robben Island, South African activist Sedick Isaacs recalls an extraordinary event about which little has been recorded - "the creation and ...

Nelson Mandela was released from jail paving the way for democracy in South Africa. Arrested in 1962 for his campaign to get ...

I said to myself, ‘Why must this man be alone when he is sick? I don’t want to be alone when I am sick.’ No one wants that." ...