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

24. In university, Mandela thought he would pursue a career as an interpreter or clerk in the Native Affairs office of the South African government. 25. Mandela also picked up acting and ballroom ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

Idris Elba is recalling how he prepared to play Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. “In 2013, when I was preparing to play Nelson Mandela in the film Long Walk to ...

The Mandela effect refers to the experience of a false memory that is shared by many people. In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that many people believed ...

During the 1950s Mandela was banned, arrested and imprisoned for challenging apartheid. He was one of the accused in the massive Treason Trial at the end of the decade and, following the 1960 ...

South Africa’s rand was steady in early trade on Wednesday, as markets processed U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s ...