Nelson Mandela Capture Site. In 1964, Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment for plotting to overthrow South Africa’s apartheid regime. He was incarcerated on Robben Island for 18 of his 27 ...

Sixty years ago during the Rivonia Trial in South Africa, Nelson Mandela delivered ... in 1963 and 1964 [View Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images] Mandela writes that he spent ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Barely two weeks after he was released from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela flew to Zambia to meet with African leaders who had supported his fight against South ...

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Ten years on from the death of Nelson Mandela, his daughter Maki believes he would be turning in his grave at the state of his beloved South Africa. In an exclusive interview with the Mirror ...

Mandela Day, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2009, is marked every year on 18 July to honor the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela. Reverend Father Bradley Moloi is seen near a mural of ...

Nelson Mandela is revered worldwide and celebrated on July 18, his birthday. But at home, a younger generation is disillusioned with the country, his party and the anti-apartheid leader, too.

Mandela, the anti-apartheid activist who emerged from 27 years in prison to become South Africa’s first Black president, was arrested in 1962 for conspiring to overthrow the White-minority ...

“I got stopped when I was a young senator trying to see Nelson Mandela in South Africa,” Biden said during a forum broadcast Sunday by left-wing outlet NowThis News. “Afterward he ...

I recently watched a documentary about how Nelson Mandela, once elected president of South Africa, used the national rugby team to unite the country. His story of course is legendary. A tireless ...