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Robben Island, the unique symbol of “the triumph of the human spirit over adversity, suffering and injustice” with a rich 500 year old multi-layered history, is visited every year by thousands of people eager to understand and honour the important aspects of South Africa’s history that the Island represents.
The tour route includes the graveyard of people who died from leprosy, the Lime Quarry, Robert Sobukwe’s house, the Bluestone quarry, the army and navy bunkers and the Maximum Security Prison where thousands of South Africa’s freedom fighters were incarcerated for years.
Robben Island Museum (RIM) is a public entity responsible for managing, maintaining, presenting, developing and marketing Robben Island as a national estate and World Heritage Site. It was established by the Department of Arts and Culture in 1997.
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Here you will find general information about visiting Robben Island and the Nelson Mandela Gateway.
Prison Life OVERVIEW. Banishment and imprisonment on Robben Island was used more as a means of punishment rather than as a ‘rehabilitative’ tool. Most of the people sent to the Island had at some point, over the past 500 years, opposed colonial and apartheid rule in South Africa.
WW2 1939 – 1945. The Island was used as the Union’s coastal defence as evidenced by the high concentration of WW2 sites. Construction of the first of the Island’s two main gun emplacements was completed in April 1940. This was a 6” calibre gun in the Cornelia Battery which covered the Blouberg Channel. The second coastal battery, known ...
Prison Life. A propaganda photograph of prisoners at work in the courtyard. Common law prisoners (on the left) perform hard labour while poiltical prisoners (on the right) do “softer” work such as sewing. Prison authorities released this photograph to the world in the 1960s to show that political prisoners were relatively well treated. In ...
Sign in to Robben Island Museum. Remember Me. Sign in. Lost Your Password? Create Account. ... Wed Thu Fri. 20/14°C 22/14°C 27/15°C. Weather forecast Cape Town, South Africa Tours. South Africans R400 per adult R210 per child (U/18) Non South Africans R600 per adult
Imprisonment 1961 – 1991. This photograph of Nelson Mandela talking to Walter Sisulu, in the B-Section courtyard, was used by prison authorities as a piece of proaganda to demonstrate the “dignified” life political prisoners were leading on Robben Island.