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

The press dubbed him "the Black ... (MK). Mandela was secretly appointed its commander in chief. "At the end of the day...violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid." Nelson Mandela ...

Speech Highlights From Nelson Mandela’s Funeral Family members, friends and political figures including South African President Jacob Zuma paid tribute to Nelson Mandela at his funeral in Qunu ...

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 ...