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.

Family members, friends and political figures including South African President Jacob Zuma paid tribute to Nelson Mandela at his funeral in Qunu. Photo: AP ...

Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster Prison in the Western Cape on the 11th of February 1990, marking a historic point in ...

February 2, 1990 – Following a speech by President F.W. de Klerk ... February 11, 1990 – Nelson Mandela freed from prison, four years to the day after Sharansky. World Jewry “reacts ...

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, suspended an account owned by the grandson of former South African President Nelson ... s speech, but the timing is questionable. Mandela has spent ...

In his 1994 inaugural speech, Mandela outlined his vision ... After his term as president, Mandela worked with the Nelson Mandela Foundation to address rural poverty and inequality in South ...

It was among the first encounters in what would become a lifelong relationship between Nelson Mandela ... Jews remembered Mandela, the country’s first democratically elected president, as ...

Nelson Mandela was a famous leader. A man who went from being a prisoner to a President and became an inspiration to people all over the world! Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa.

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its ...