July 18 is Nelson Mandela Day, and in honor of the anti-apartheid activist and first black president of South Africa, we're reliving a famous speech he gave in Cape Town in 1990 after his release ...

Nelson Mandela, South African leader and apartheid foe, died Thursday at 95. Here are a selection of speeches he gave after his release from prison in 1990, and while as president in 1994.

February 2, 1990 – Following a speech by President F.W ... a Jewish lawyer who afforded a young Nelson Mandela a job as a clerk in the face of apartheid restrictions, dies in Johannesburg ...

NAIROBI: Last year marked the 20th anniversary of the end of the apartheid system in South Africa. Nelson Mandela came out as the most revered hero of the liberation struggle but he never tired of ...

Nelson Mandela, whose successful struggle against South Africa’s apartheid system of racial ... he gave his famous “Speech from the Dock”, stating, “I have cherished the ideal of a ...

In 1962, Mandela went to jail for almost 30 years. There were protests against Apartheid and calls for his release around the world. In 1990, Nelson Mandela was set free. "Today the majority of ...

Ndaba Mandela, the grandson of Nelson Mandela, the renowned South African anti-apartheid leader and first president of ...

It was an admission that apartheid had failed. For the African National Congress (ANC), the release of Nelson Mandela was a sine qua non of any agreement, and as early as 1985 the regime began ...