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 ...

In 2005, Nelson Mandela delivered a speech in the center of London and called on a new generation to be great. He had three clear demands – to make trade fair, cancel unpayable debt, and increase and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) have been in power since Nelson Mandela became the country’s first black president. Back in 1994, a woman named Cynthia Mthebe spoke to the BBC's ...