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 ...

The rabbit is one of some 6 700 that have been shot in a four-month culling programme on Robben Island ... visitors to the sight of killing. The corpses are taken to a temporary abattoir set up in a ...

While Costa wasn't imprisoned on Robben Island -- that was reserved for black ... The prisoners slept on mats on the floor -- 40 men to a room -- and not in beds. And there was no heat or air ...

Robben Island sits in South Africa’s Table Bay, only 4.5 miles (7 kilometers) from Cape Town’s beaches, in a rather spectacular physical setting. But this island is no pleasure resort.