Sidelsky and Eidelman gave a young black man a job as a clerk. It was among the first encounters in what would become a lifelong relationship between Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s tiny ...

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 ...

Nelson Mandela was “trying to come to the United ... who spent 27 years in prison before becoming South Africa’s first Black ...

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

Participants in the annual 27 For Freedom Race, held at the Drakenstein Correctional Centre (formerly Victor Verster Prison), ...

February 11th holds a significant place in the annals of history, marked by transformative events across various domains, ...

Take a look at the 'rap sheet' of late president Nelson Mandela's grandson ... whose father was the late Magkatho Mandela – has often been called the “black sheep of the family”.

South African President Nelson Mandela, right, shakes hands with Namibian President Sam Nujoma at the presidential residence ...

Following the release of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom in 2013, Elba first shared how he spent a night at the South African prison. Speaking to Oprah Winfrey in December 2013, he said that while he ...