The former president wrote on Truth Social that he would "gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela," adding it would be a ...

(CNN)-- When Nelson Mandela stepped out ... The African National Congress -- once again legal after being banned in 1961 -- elected Mandela as its president, and he won South Africa's presidential ...

Nelson Mandela, the former political prisoner who ... stepping down from the presidency after one term and holding out the promise of a new Africa. And to a world roiled by war, poverty and ...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in 1918 ... Mandela was released after 27 years, in February 1990. Four years later he was elected president. Among his appointees was Arthur Chaskalson, a ...

Bafana Bafana legend shares the heartwarming story of Nelson Mandela surprising him at his wedding after South Africa's AFCON ...

Story Highlights Police sergeant shoots himself with service unit while on duty Incident occurs in guard house outside Mandela's Johannesburg home The former South African president was home at the ...

Nelson Mandela was a South African revolutionary political figure and activist. Universally praised for publicly spearheading opposition to apartheid, he became the country's first democratically ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of South Africa ... of his 46664 campaign – named after his prison number – to mobilize ...

And in April, 1994, only four years after his release ... McDonald reports on Nelson Mandela, who went from freedom fighter to become South Africa’s first Black president.