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 ...

JOHANNESBURG - Brace yourself for a hilarious and action-packed adventure as the Umbrella Men return in their highly anticipated sequel, "The Umbrella Men: Escape From Robben Island," premiering ...

In his memoir of surviving the brutal apartheid prison Robben Island ... the power of music as it was experienced on the Island – music as escape, protest, refuge and salvation.

Elba said that before filming started, he “spent the night” in a prison cell on Robben Island, which is the same prison Mandela was in from 1964 to 1982. “I’d been given the incredible ...

Barefoot, and wearing their khaki prison uniforms ... after a Xhosa warrior-prophet who drowned while trying to escape Robben Island in 1820. “We decided to run it properly,” says Moseneke ...