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  2. Robben Island - Wikipedia

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    Robben Island is accessible to visitors through tours that depart from Cape Town's waterfront. [20] Tours depart three times a day and take about 3.5 hours, consisting of a ferry trip to and from the island, and a tour of the various historical sites on the island that form part of the Robben Island Museum.

  3. Sonny Venkatrathnam - Wikipedia

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    Sonny Venkatrathnam (27 July 1935 – 15 March 2019) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and human rights activist who was imprisoned in the Robben Island Maximum Security Prison along with other anti-apartheid activists including Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, and Mac Maharaj. [1] He was most famously known for smuggling an edition of ...

  4. Robben Island Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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    It was completed in January 1865 and is located on the highest part of Robben Island, Mintoheuwel. Before the construction of the lighthouse, fires were made on the hill to warn sailors of the island's location and the hill was then also known as Vuurberg. The first navigation light (Dutch: "vuyrbaecken") south of the equator was also the first ...

  5. List of World Heritage Sites in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Robben Island, a small island off the coast from Cape Town, was in different periods between the 17th and 20th centuries used as a hospital, prison, and a military base. It was used as a leper colony in the 19th century and as a maximum security prison for political prisoners during the Apartheid era, especially after the 1960s.

  6. Table Mountain Aerial Cableway - Wikipedia

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    The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway is a cable car transportation system offering visitors a five-minute ride to the top of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. It is one of Cape Town's most popular tourist attractions with approximately one million people a year using the Cableway. [3] In January 2019, the Cableway welcomed its 28 ...

  7. Robben Island (prison) - Wikipedia

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    Robben Island Prison is an inactive prison on Robben Island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometers (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. Nobel Laureate and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was imprisoned there for 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid.

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