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An indignity: Robben Island, a place synonymous with pain, resistance, suffering and sacrifice, is being reframed as somewhere you can … check in. But not all real estate should be optimised. Some spaces carry a weight that cannot be monetised without consequence. Photo: Moheen Reeyad
APARTHEID

Robben Island is not a place to sleep

The idea of sleeping in former Robben Island guard houses feels like a line we shouldn’t be crossing — not because of what it could earn but because of what it risks eroding

  • Ash Müller
4 min read
The Moturu kramat is a sacred site for Muslims on Robben Island, built in 1969 to commemorate Sayed Adurohman Moturu. (Gallo Images / The Times / Anton Scholt)
LESTER KIEWIT

Robben Island bones require a deeper dig

It has more than a 500-year history as a trading post, a leper colony and an island had also been used to house banished religious leaders.

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read
LULU XINGWANA

Robben Island Museum gets another interim CEO

Senior arts and culture official Vusithemba Ndima has been appointed interim CEO of the Robben Island Museum.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read