A Robben Island tour guide has gone viral after his slow, deliberate way of speaking during a prison tour left Mzansi ...

Every July 18, Mandela Day marks the birthday of Nelson Mandela with a global ...

Former political prisoner and Robben Island tour guide Vusumsi Mcongo provides video annotation of the tour. Mandela's cell (pictured) measured 2-by 2 meters (6.5-by 6.5 feet). As Mandela was 6-foot ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...