FRANSCHHOEK, South Africa (Reuters) - The image of Nelson Mandela with his fist raised on the day of his release from 27 years in jail has been immortalized in a bronze statue unveiled on Thursday ...

Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in what was then known as the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire. Although the majority of the country’s inhabitants were Black, they ...

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February 11, 1990, is a date that the world will never forget. On this Sunday afternoon, after 27 years, Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster Prison in South Africa. Nelson Mandela was a leader ...

One man spent 12 years by Mandela’s side during his prison term: his guard Christo Brand. Credit: Shutterstock / Adwo Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1962, Nelson Mandela spent 27 years as a ...

A drawing by late South African leader Nelson Mandela of the door of his prison cell on Robben Island -- where he was held for 18 years -- will be put up for auction in early May in New York. Bonhams, ...

Christo Brand, a former prison guard, who guarded Nelson Mandela, talks about his experiences, on April 16, 2013, in Cape Town. Brand and Mandela became friends and have maintained contact until ...

South Africa: The ringleader of a white supremacist plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela and drive black people out of South Africa has been sentenced to 35 years in jail. Former university lecturer ...