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 ...

Here are a selection of speeches he gave after his release from prison in 1990, and while as president in 1994. Nelson Mandela, South African leader and apartheid foe, died Thursday at 95.

July 18 is Nelson Mandela Day, and in honor of the anti-apartheid activist and first black president of South Africa, we're reliving a famous speech he gave in Cape Town in 1990 after his release ...

Nelson Mandela was the first black president of South ... Mandela served only one term as president. 58. In his 1994 inaugural speech, Mandela outlined his vision of South Africa as a united ...

TREVOR MCDONALD: In the 1940s South Africa was under apartheid rule: the doctrine that white people were somehow superior to Black people. The white police force sometimes tortured and killed the ...

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 ...

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its ...

Family members, friends and political figures including South African President Jacob Zuma paid tribute to Nelson Mandela at his funeral in Qunu. Photo: AP ...