For 27 years, Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island for his fight against South Africa's apartheid regime. Saki Macozoma served time on... Former Robben Island Inmate Recalls Mandela's ...

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 ...

Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison, on Robben Island, at Pollsmoor and finally at Victor Verster. On 11 February 1990, amid mounting domestic unrest and growing international pressure, President ...

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 ...

Workers at South Africa's Robben Island Museum, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for nearly two decades, started an open-ended strike over low pay on Monday, their union said. South Africa's first ...

Idris Elba is recalling how he prepared to play Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. “In 2013, when I was preparing to play Nelson Mandela in the film Long Walk to Freedom, I ...

Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. During a recent interview with The Sunday Times, ...

Premiering at Sundance, Antoine Fuqua discusses why the documentary centers the global icon’s own voice. “I wanted people to see him as a human being,” the director said.

"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 ...