Nelson Mandela was a South African revolutionary political figure and activist. Universally praised for publicly spearheading opposition to apartheid, he became the country's first democratically ...

Mandela was secretly appointed its commander in chief. "At the end of the day...violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid." Nelson Mandela, 1959 "Monitoring Mandela (Four Police ...

If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart" Nelson Mandela led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy, and was the country's ...