When Nelson Mandela died in 2013, news headlines called him “the Lincoln of Africa.” It is little wonder that modern ...

The story of how Nelson Mandela came to work with F.W. de Klerk to end apartheid and what their relationship was like ...

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 ...

This historic home is now a museum with an overnight rate. The former house and surrounding gardens of former South African president and anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela is now accepting ...

"For my generation, the heroes are not political icons, as incredible as they are," said Gugu Ximiya as he boarded a minibus packed with Sowetans travelling to work in the rich, white neighborhoods in ...

South Africa's ruling party condemned President Trump for his alleged insults of Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid revolutionary who won the Nobel Peace Prize and served as the country's first Black ...

All week long, the tributes have soared for the man who South Africans say created their country, but an important chapter seems to have gone largely missing from the testimonials. This “giant of ...

Nelson Mandela’s home has been turned into a hangout for drug users and “scantily clad women” by his grandsons, it has been ...

Nelson Mandela's grandson says the ANC must bring back formal roles for traditional leaders to help shape all policies that ...

One autumn evening, Nelson Mandela answered a knock at his front door and found himself facing his most dangerous enemy. The man’s name was General Constand Viljoen, and he was dubbed the “ultimate ...