Robben Island Museum Tour

Just 12 km from Cape Town, Robben Island was a place of deportation, exile, isolation and confinement for nearly 400 years. It was here at Robben Island, sent to the rulers of the transaction: the political menaces, exiles and unwanted of society.

During the apartheid years Robben Island has became globally for its institutional brutality. The responsibility of individuals who ran Robben Island and Robben Island prison was to isolate opponents of apartheid and to squeeze their self-esteem. The imprisoned on the island achieved in a psychological and political revolving a prison hell hole "as a symbol of personal freedom and liberation. Robben Island became a symbol not only for South Africa and the African continent, but also for the world, the triumph of human spirit over enormous hardship and adversity
. Over thousands of years, the island was served as residence for the People of Cape Town, was not covered with water. Since the Dutch established at the Cape of the mid-1600s, Robben Island was used mainly as a prison.

Today, however, Robben Island also tells profit apartheid and other human rights abuses. "Indestructibility of the spirit of resistance to colonialism, injustice and oppression" Overcoming opposition from the prison authorities, prisoners on Robben Island after 1960 were able to organize sports events, political debates and educational programs to defend their right of human beings with dignity and equality. They were able to help lay the foundation for modern democracy. Today, Robben Island is a place of coercion and the victory of the place.