Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years, marking a golden moment in history. On this day in 1979, ...

In 1994 he became the first black President of South Africa. He worked hard to bring all South Africans of all skin colours together. Nelson Mandela died in 2013, aged 95. Over his long life ...

Madiba spent 18 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island and was later moved to other prisons on the mainland before ...

Nelson Mandela was the first black president of South Africa from 1994-1999 and the first president ... the University of South Africa. 28. He became more interested in South African politics ...

It was among the first encounters in what would become a lifelong relationship between Nelson Mandela ... Jews remembered Mandela, the country’s first democratically elected president, as ...