CULTURETECHLENSRobben Island
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Combined Graph record U-01401 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0076. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Robben Island is an island in South Africa (declared a National Monument in 1996 under South African law; management authority is the Robben Island Museum Council) that was used between the 17th and 20th centuries as a prison, including the late-20th-century maximum security prison for political prisoners of the Apartheid period, and whose prison buildings symbolize the triumph of freedom and democracy over oppression (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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Robben Island is an island in South Africa (declared a National Monument in 1996 under South African law; management authority is the Robben Island Museum Council) that was used between the 17th and 20th centuries as a prison, including the late-20th-century maximum security prison for political prisoners of the Apartheid period, and whose prison buildings symbolize the triumph of freedom and democracy over oppression (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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Robben Island is an island in South Africa (declared a National Monument in 1996 under South African law; management authority is the Robben Island Museum Council) that was used between the 17th and 20th centuries as a prison, including the late-20th-century maximum security prison for political prisoners of the Apartheid period, and whose prison buildings symbolize the triumph of freedom and democracy over oppression (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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