A FIRST FOR ROBBEN ISLAND

Two women who met while flipping burgers became the first same-sex couple to get married on Robben Island on Thursday. Marcia Jumat and R...

Two women who met while flipping burgers became the first same-sex couple to get married on Robben Island on Thursday. Marcia Jumat and Rozeana Julius, from Parklands in Cape Town, yelled: “Thank you Nelson Mandela”, as the ferry set sail from the V&A Waterfront, carrying them and 10 other couples to the island’s annual Valentine’s Day mass wedding.  

Valentine's Day wedding couples arrive on Robben Island on February 14 2019. They were due to be married in the island's garrison church under the watchful eye of home affairs minister Siyabonga Cwele. Video by Esa Alexander pic.twitter.com/L1F2itWxLE

— David Chambers (@daveincapetown) February 14, 2019