Daniel Radcliffe is seen in character as Tim Jenkin for his next film ‘Escape from Pretoria,’ where he plays a white South ...

JOHANNESBURG - A 17-year-old is desperately trying to escape Robben Island. Luca Amerseder has taken his school assignment to a whole new level. The scope was to choose a project involving ...

The Fourways, Johannesburg resident will be swimming the Robben Island Escape in Cape Town in May 2025, an approximately 8km cold Atlantic open water crossing with the hope of raising R20,000 ...

In 1997, three years after apartheid fell, the prison was turned into the Robben Island Museum. The most powerful part of the tour is a visit to Mandela’s cell, a 7-by-9-foot room where a bulb ...

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.

While Costa wasn't imprisoned on Robben Island -- that was reserved ... see the city and Table Mountain from the island -- it was not advisable to escape. The ocean's currents aren't conducive ...

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

Apart from being a prison, Robben Island has served different roles across the last few centuries. It was used as a leper colony from 1846 to 1931 and later as a military base during World War II.

Photograph by ANNIE GRIFFITHS, Nat Geo Image Collection Robben Island’s most poignant period was the late 20th century, when the facility was used as a maximum security prison for political ...

Daniel Radcliffe on set during the filming of “Escape from Pretoria” in Pirie ... who breaks out of the brutal Robben Island Prison. Starring along side him is British-Australian Daniel ...

Robben Island is a historical landmark and UNESCO World Heritage site on a small island close to Cape Town. The UNESCO World Heritage Centre reported that the island was used for multiple purposes ...