When the anti-apartheid leader emerged from 27 years of confinement, South Africans knew their country was undergoing a seismic change. But they... Editor's Note: Wednesday marks the 25th anniversary ...

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 ...

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 ...