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Description: Robben Island Museum. Tel: +27 21 411 1006. Fax: +27 21 411 1059. Info/Enquiries :info@robben-island.org.za Since the ... more

Robben Island ... Dutch settled at the Cape in the mid-1600s, Robben Island has been used primarily as a prison. Indigenous African leaders, Muslim leaders

Newest Review: ... of tolerance, reconciliation and hope that moved the World. Now you can visit Robben Island, the standard tour includes: - A return boat trip across Table Bay. A visit to the famous maximum-security prison, which includes the Footsteps Of Mandela Tour- from the main prison entrance through the famous b-section, which includes Nelson Mandela's cell and also the Cell Stories Exhibition ... more

... in A-Section- a stark area of 40 isolation cells with artefacts loaned by ex-political prisoners. Intimate stories of lesser-known prisoners and the bleakness of prison life recreated. A 45-minute island bus tour, which takes in the Leper Church and Ceme...more

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Robben Island is known the world over as a place of banishment, exile and imprisonment, for nearly 400 years colonial and apartheid rulers banished those they regarded as political troublemakers, social outcasts and the unwanted of society to this rocky outcrop in Table Bay. During the apartheid years Robben Island became internationally known for its institutional brutality. Some freedom fighters spent more than 25 years in prison for their beliefs. Yet people like Nelson Mandela emerged from here to lead South Africa to democracy with a message of tolerance, reconciliation and hope that moved the World. Now you can visit Robben Island, the standard ... Read the complete review

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