Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mayor Adams drew a parallel between the global fight against COVID-19 and Nelson Mandela’s decades-long struggle for freedom in a ...

Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in what was then known as the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire. Although the majority of the country’s inhabitants were Black, they ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks with writer Richard Stengel about Mandela: The Lost Tapes, which features never-before heard audio of his conversations with Nelson Mandela from 1993. If I speak the name of ...

One of my favourite statues is the one of Nelson Mandela at the Sandton City shopping centre in Johannesburg. Larger than life, its oversized bronze shoes shimmer in the evening light, polished by the ...

Revolutionaries are sometimes forgotten, despite their mission having been successful. Their struggle over, it is often condensed to a single heroic figure, recast by history into a pacifist and a ...

October 1997, Western Cape Province, South Africa --- Nelson Mandela at Franschoek Pass, his favorite viewpoint. Former President of South Africa and longtime political prisoner, Nelson Mandela, was ...

The magnificent response to the call of the National Action Council for a three day strike and the wonderful work done by our organisers and field workers throughout the country proves once again that ...

No one is indispensable. Yet history is full of individuals whose absence or presence changed the course of human events and altered the fate of nations. Most of these were autocrats whose ...

Twenty years ago Thursday, Nelson Mandela was released from a South African prison. Mandela had spent 27 years in prison for his part in the struggle against apartheid. Mandela went on to win the ...

Mayor Adams drew a parallel between the global fight against COVID-19 and Nelson Mandela’s decades-long struggle for freedom in a speech Monday commemorating what would have been the late South ...