Plans to auction off the key that kept Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa and legendary anti-apartheid activist, behind bars are off. The auction house, New York City-based ...

Robben Island was designed to crush resistance, but instead it created leaders. This documentary explores how a notorious prison helped change South Africa forever.

Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie unveiled the wall on Saturday, which features the names of more than 5,000 ...

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 do ...

ROBBEN ISLAND, South Africa (Reuters) - Apartheid-era South Africa's most feared prison, Robben Island, remains inextricably linked with Nelson Mandela, its most famous inmate who spent decades of ...

AFA copy 39088019764646 is a gift from Janet Stanley. Robben Island-best known as the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for eighteen years-has been a place of harshness and brutality; its ...

New York auction house Guernsey's has postponed the sale of some of the South African leader's belongings, including the key to his cell and the... Plans to auction off the key that kept Nelson ...

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Plans to auction off the key that kept Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa and legendary anti-apartheid activist, behind bars are off. The auction house, New York City-based ...