(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of South Africa. He was given the name Nelson by a school teacher. He was sometimes called ...

In 1990, Nelson Mandela was set free. "Today the majority of South Africans, black and white, recognise that Apartheid has no future." The South African government listened and they got rid of ...

If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart" Nelson Mandela led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy, and was the country's ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of South Africa. Marriages: Graca Machel (July 18, 1998-December 5, 2013, his death ...