Nelson Mandela buried his original handwritten copy of 'Long Walk to Freedom' in a vegetable patch on Robben Island. Here's ...

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, who spent part of his childhood in South Africa, delivered the inaugural Nelson Mandela ...

Three decades after apartheid, many South Africans say Nelson Mandela's vision remains unfulfilled. Inequality, xenophobia ...

Do you remember Darth Vader's Star Wars quote as, “Luke, I am your father”? Or perhaps you recall The Berenstein Bears books from your childhood? If either rings true, then you’re experiencing The ...

As South Africa grapples with inequality and division, Mandela Day has taken on new political significance.

On Saturday the Glenwood Urban Precint Improvent (GUIP), together with community members, took to Bulwer Park for a mega ...

There has been no one like Nelson Mandela on the world stage in my lifetime. I was a child of five years old when he went into prison and a young man of thirty-three when he got out; during all of ...

A key feature that made Mandela special was his extraordinary, conciliatory leadership as the country's first Black president ...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid activist who was married to Nelson Mandela for nearly four decades, died in Johannesburg at age 81 on Monday after what her spokesman called ...

As a Times correspondent in South Africa during the final violent spasms of the apartheid regime and the jubilant election of the country’s first black president in 1994, I noticed something odd about ...