A South African appeals court has ruled against a government heritage agency's attempt to prevent the sale and overseas ...

Dr Iqbal Survé gives a deeply personal account of his Robben Island visit, exposing the harsh realities faced by political ...

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 ...

Robben Island is where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years as a political prisoner during apartheid. Intended to isolate and break ...

1. Introduction: prison as a source of politics -- 2. Politics and prison: a background -- 3. Resistance for survival -- 4. Resistance beyond survival -- 5. Prisoner politics and organization on ...

A South African court has dismissed an appeal by the country's heritage body to stop the sale and export of various artefacts connected to anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.

Unlike many struggle veterans, Kathrada never held public political office after the fall of apartheid. South Africas anti-apartheid icon Ahmed Kathrada, who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela, was ...

Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island, by Ashwin Desai is a slender volume that contains a gigantic book. Time seems to bend, slow down, expand and contract as we read it, as the eons of ...