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...than Alan Hansen - about Anfield. "You are in for a night," he told me before Liverpool's home leg European Champions League semi-final clash with Chelsea on Tuesday, hinting at the intimidating cauldron created by the vocal passion of the home crowd. Perhaps someone should have told Arjen Robben: As Chelsea's wide man stepped up to take the first penalty kick of the shootout - after two games and extra time left the score at 1-1 - Anfield stadium was nearly lifted off its moorings by the roar pouring from the Kop, the famous home end of the arena...
...just an hour north of Cape Town, so you can make a day visit. "Some people go to Robben Island in the morning and then come to us. From the sublime to the ridiculous," says Uys. Evita is on stage every weekend from February through August. tel: (27-22) 492 2851/31; www.evita.co.za
...DIED. RAYMOND MHLABA, 85, member of the African National Congress and for 26 years a political prisoner on South Africa's infamous Robben Island; in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Along with Nelson Mandela, Mhlaba was one of four members of the prison's "High Organ," which negotiated with the apartheid government for better conditions and the release of political prisoners. Freed in 1989, he went on to serve as a regional official and as High Commissioner to Uganda and Rwanda. Upon Mhlaba's death, Mandela called him "one of the real stalwarts of our movement, a person...
...DIED. WILTON MKWAYI, 81, antiapartheid fighter who served more than 20 years of a life sentence with Nelson Mandela in prison on Robben Island; in King Williams Town, South Africa. Mkwayi helped found an armed-resistance movement called Spear of the Nation in the 1950s. Convicted of treason in 1964, he was released as the apartheid system was being dismantled...
This summer, Stopforth hopes to spend two weeks working on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held during his incarceration. Because his work is so tied to a specific place, Stopforth has found that his work is sometimes inaccessible. “It is often not that easy for Americans to reference. I am something of an outsider for art in America or art in Boston,” he says. “As an exile or an immigrant, that is something that one constantly has to work with...