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 ...

In nearly seven decades spent fighting for freedom and equality, Nelson Mandela inspired and challenged the world to stand up for others. As word of Mandela’s death spread Thursday, current and former ...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid campaigner and former wife of the late President Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 81. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the South African ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG — F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa's last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country's white minority rule, has died at the ...

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 ...

This week, South Africa has lost a monumental figure in the fight against apartheid. Discover the incredible life and legacy ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky recently made headlines by stating the Russia-Ukraine war must end with negotiations and diplomacy. My grandfather—Nelson Mandela—would have agreed. After all, he knew ...

Unlike many struggle veterans, Kathrada never held public political office after the fall of apartheid. South Africas anti-apartheid icon Ahmed Kathrada, who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela, was ...

JOHANNESBURG, Dec 15 (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 ...