He told City Press: “I visited the stone quarry, which is decaying and full of water. The political prisoners were forced to work there producing the rocks that built the Robben Island prison. To us, ...

The movie’s famous training montage features Sylvester Stallone running up all 72 stone ... Island, Cape Town’s City Hall, and the Palace of Justice in Pretoria. The interior of Robben Island ...

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa visits Nelson Mandela’s prison cell on Robben Island. Picture: X.com/MYANC CAPE TOWN - African National Congress (ANC) president ...

Idris Elba details how he spent a night in a South African prison to ready for Nelson Mandela role - The actor was the lead ...

He acknowledged that the political prisoners who were detained on Robben Island understood the importance of collaboration for survival, a lesson which he said the ANC will now apply to its ...

Other ANC leaders used the Robben Island ... was flown to the island by helicopter for security reasons. The solemn commemoration was aimed at honouring political prisoners who spent years on ...

Prior to its purpose as a prison, Robben Island also functioned as a military base for 29 years. Visitors can learn about the site’s extensive past at the Robben Island Museum, which was ...

Focusing on profits, rather than the legacy of former inmates banished to Robben Island, will see the heritage of its political prisoners forgotten in 10 years' time, the Ex-Political Prisoners ...

In a statement, the ANC said that Fikile Mbalula's private boat ride to Robben Island was falsely being portrayed as an indulgent luxury. ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula at the party's ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

A former Palestinian prisoner released by Israel is hugged by members of his family as he disembarks a Red Cross bus after arriving in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank on February 1 ...