Mandela wasn't a perfect man. But he was a compassionate leader. Dec. 5, 2013— -- "My head is bloody, but unbowed. I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul." These are a few lines ...

Today marks the birthday of former South African president Nelson Mandela. An activist and political prisoner for much of his life, Mandela challenged the authority of Apartheid which segregated based ...

Robben Island was built to silence revolutionaries. Instead, it produced them. Behind its barbed wire, Nelson Mandela and his ...

A digital archive documenting former South African President Nelson Mandela’s life has been launched on the internet, writes Kiundu Waweru Men and women all over the world right down the centuries ...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black ...

A decade after the death of Nelson Mandela, many South Africans are asking what the anti-apartheid icon would have thought of the current state of the country and the direction it's heading in. Nelson ...

The Nelson Mandela Foundation described Zoleka as "a tireless activist for healthcare and justice" after her death on Monday Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock ...

In June 1990, Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist who spent 27 years in prison, toured eight U.S. cities as part of a larger world tour. While in the U.S., Mandela traveled in one of Donald ...

A claim that anti-apartheid activist and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela once said that "when two neighboring countries fight each other, just know the USA visited one" has been ...

She had cancers of the hip, liver, lung, pelvis, brain and spinal cord. LONDON -- Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter, Zoleka Mandela, has died at the age of 43. “The Nelson Mandela Foundation extends its ...