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As a Times correspondent in South Africa during the final violent spasms of the apartheid regime and the jubilant election of the country’s first black president in 1994, I noticed something odd about ...

Five designs for a planned statue of Nelson Mandela have been unveiled in Glasgow. The city was the first in the world to award its freedom to Mandela in 1981, at a time when he was still in prison in ...

Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has provided an update on how ...

A data analysis by The New York Times shows that a form of torture popular during apartheid endures in the country despite laws designed to eliminate it. By John Eligon President Trump surprised a ...

Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison as a political prisoner, was released in 1990. In 1994, he was the first democratically elected president in South Africa’s history and served one term.

SOUTH AFRICA -- He was a freedom fighter in South Africa at the same time leaders were fighting for civil rights in America, and while many were assassinated, he was jailed for more than 20 ...

On December 5th, Nelson Mandela passed away. The anti-apartheid icon was in and out of the hospital throughout the year as he fought a recurring lung infection. As the world comes together to pray for ...

On the eve of the G20 Summit, South African women, including those in Nelson Mandela Bay, staged a nationwide shutdown, ...

I rarely post tweets regarding the passing of prominent people. Nelson Mandela a huge exception. An incredible human being, already missed. — Paul Jenkins (@mypauljenkins) December 5, 2013 People ...

Nelson Mandela, who became one of the world's most beloved statesmen and a colossus of the 20th century when he emerged from 27 years in prison to negotiate an end to white minority rule in South ...