On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years behind bars; CBS News' Bob Simon was there President Obama addressed the massive crowd of mourners assembled to honor ...

Robben Island Prison - Nelson Mandela's Cell Atagana says that mapping the island wasn’t without its challenges. For instance, Street View usually uses cars to map a place, but as the prison is ...

These are a few lines from the poem "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley, which Nelson Mandela kept on his bare wall in prison. And the lines above, and the poem as a whole are such a beautiful ...

On Christmas Eve 1986, a South Africa prison commander responsible for watching over Nelson Mandela casually asked the world's most famous prisoner, "Mandela, would you like to see the city?" ...

When Nelson Mandela was sent to prison in 1964, he left behind his wife ... with the apartheid government what became a road map for a new South Africa. He reached the masses of people through ...

“Nelson Mandela – I’d never heard the name before in my life,” a former prison guard to the South African icon recalls. Christo Brand casts his mind back to 1978, and his first night ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

In an exclusive clip from the BBC Archive, watch Nelson Mandela speak about his historic release from prison, which was a watershed moment for South Africa in its transition to democracy.

The story of Nelson Mandela’s life is ... Some may be familiar – the conditions of his jail on Robben Island – others not, like the time a young Mandela fled to Johannesburg to escape ...

If Nelson Mandela were indeed with us to celebrate this special day and had the power to enact his values in our prison system, it is virtually certain that he would seek to dismantle our system ...