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

Dozens of artefacts linked to South African reformist icon Nelson Mandela will not be auctioned — for now. The development comes after a court application to completely halt the auction came ...

Reflecting on Nelson Mandela's release, 35 years on, this article explores the profound impact of his leadership on South ...

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 a leader of the African National ... In 1963 his trial began and Mandela the icon was born. Mandela turned the trial into a platform to argue the ANC’s cause, not just to ...

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 ...

This first video in a series called ‘21 Icons South Africa’ features Nelson Mandela during a photo shoot in 2011. The content was produced by Adrian Steirn of the Ginkgo Agency. WSJ has agreed ...

It was an admission that apartheid had failed. For the African National Congress (ANC), the release of Nelson Mandela was a sine qua non of any agreement, and as early as 1985 the regime began ...