For nearly 500 years, Robben Island was used as a dumping ground for people considered dangerous, undesirable, or politically ...

For decades, the island was a towering emblem of punishment—first for enslaved labourers and lepers under colonial rule and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, South Africa (Reuters) - A small but much-prized soccer trophy on display in a cell of Robben Island prison is a reminder of how football touched the lives of the activists locked up ...

"I think that all of us have an innate potential to develop our humanity," Mac Maharaj said in his talk last night, sponsored by the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL). Maharaj was imprisoned with ...

Today is Nelson Mandela International Day. Nelson Mandela spent the greatest number of years that he was in prison - 18 out of 27 on Robben Island (South Africa) World Heritage site. Robben Island was ...

A review by Jason Rhodes for Insurgent Notes #13., October 2016.

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has described the unveiling of a statue of the late Andimba Toivo ya Toivo in South Africa as a symbol of Namibian sacrifice. In a statement released this week, she ...

ROBBEN ISLAND, South Africa, June 14 (Reuters) - A small but much-prized soccer trophy on display in a cell of Robben Island prison is a reminder of how football touched the lives of the activists ...