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 ...

, the main tourist site in Cape Town. Besides having a shopping mall with stores as sharp as any in Portland, it's the location for the Robben Island tour. We bought tickets for the last cruise of the ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN (AP, AFP) - United States President Barack Obama toured South Africa's Robben Island, where former South African President Nelson Mandela spent 18 years in a tiny cell as a political ...

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 ...

Against the backdrop of the economic onslaught of Covid-19 on the global tourism industry, RIM has had to re-evaluate its offerings and find ways to improve the visitor experience. The management of ...

Cape Town - The Robben Island Museum is using local boat suppliers to ferry visitors, as two of their vessels have been out of service for the past few months, the museum’s management says. The ...