Robben was a key figure for the Netherlands national team, with 97 caps. He played in three World Cups (2006, 2010, 2014) and three European Championships (2004, 2008, 2012).

The African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa has said the party is drawing inspiration from its recent visit to Robben Island, as it seeks to rebuild following its failure to ...

ANC NEC member Donald Selamolela defended Fikile Mbalula's arrival on Robben Island by yacht, but South Africans don't think much about the excuse.

Mayco Member for Safety and Security, JP Smith reports: “At around 4am, the City’s Eye in the Sky spotted suspicious individuals near Robben Island. “The suspects’ boat was followed to Hout Bay ...

Focusing on profits, rather than the legacy of former inmates banished to Robben Island, will see the heritage of its political prisoners forgotten in 10 years' time, the Ex-Political Prisoners ...

Originally entitled The Hodoshe Span (Hodoshe, a Xhosa word for a carrion fly, is the nickname of a reviled prison guard in the play), The Island is set on Robben Island, the infamous maximum ...

Geography Island Jams is a podcast run jointly by the Department of Geography and Environment and the LSESU Geography and Environment Society. The podcast is in a similar style to BBC Radio 4’s Desert ...

Caitlin Rossiter of Hartbeespoort ended 2024 in the cold Cape waters where she swam the 7.5km Cape Town to Robben Island Crossing on 30 December. The Harties Reflections swimmer and learner at ...

Between 1892 and 1954, most immigrants arriving in the United States passed through New York’s Ellis Island control center. For those fleeing poverty and war, the “island of tears” was also ...

Fikile Mbalula, the ANC Secretary-General, reportedly going on a yacht trip to Robben Island, has triggered an uproar. Social media users accuse him of tone-deafness, insensitivity, and elitism, ...

Around 250 people holding British Overseas Territories citizenship live on the archipelago's only inhabited island, also called Tristan da Cunha, in a community known as Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.