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 ...

1. Nelson Mandela was the first black president of South Africa from 1994-1999 and the first president elected after the end of apartheid, an extensive system of segregation and discrimination ...

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 ...

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

In 1994 he became the first black President of South Africa. He worked hard to bring all South Africans of all skin colours together. Nelson Mandela died in 2013, aged 95. Over his long life ...

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

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

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

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 Freedom, I ...

Ruth Simmons talks about how her upbringing and life illustrate determination and the transforming power of education in the Black History month series.

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”.

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 ...