Nelson Mandela, who battled apartheid in South Africa before becoming its first democratic leader, died at his home in South Africa after several months of ongoing health problems. He was 95. South ...

JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela was a master of forgiveness. South Africa's first black president spent nearly one-third of his life as a prisoner of apartheid, the system of white racist rule that he ...

When Nelson Mandela’s long walk to freedom finally ended Sunday, it was at the end of a dirt road winding its way across a rolling green hill on his family farm in Qunu — “that village,” Mandela wrote ...

Nelson Mandela, who battled apartheid in South Africa before becoming its first democratic leader, died at his home in South Africa after several months of ongoing health problems. He was 95. South ...

We have restored the dignity of every South African,'' Mandela said shortly before stepping down as president in 1999 at age 80. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born July 18, 1918, the son of a tribal ...