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.

20 years ago this month, Nelson Mandela gave an iconic speech in Trafalgar Square to mark the opening of the Make Poverty ...

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 ...

The granddaughter of Nelson Mandela has spoken out against "climate apartheid". Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg from the COP28 climate summit, Ndileka Mandela said "the global north is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...