Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in what was then known as the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire. Although the majority of the country’s inhabitants were Black, they ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to multi-racial democracy, as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the struggle for justice ...

Although Mandela had been frail and ailing for nearly a year, President Jacob Zuma’s announcement late Thursday of the death of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate shook South Africa. Tributes began ...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela actively protested apartheid for most of his life, and he is known for being one of the world's most famous political prisoners. His anti-apartheid ...

Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME. In 1991, two years after he became president of South Africa, F.W. de Klerk, who died at the age of 85, secretly met with Nelson Mandela at ...

Nelson Mandela takes the oath as South Africa’s president in Pretoria on 10 May 1994. Walter Dhladhla/AFP via Getty Images When Nelson Mandela stood in front of the Union Buildings in Pretoria in May ...

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of Nelson Mandela. His activism against apartheid sent him to prison for 27 years. After that system of racial segregation came to an end and ...

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Johannesburg — The Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to South Africa's last apartheid president, FW de Klerk, was stolen from his Cape Town home six months ago, his foundation revealed on Wednesday. He ...