One of history’s most respected freedom fighters and an essential actor in the elimination of apartheid in South Africa, ...

Show more Nelson Mandela’s image is known around the world. He was one of the most famous people on the planet. But can just a handful of photos uncover new truths about someone we think we all ...

Nelson Mandela, pictured in the 1950s, during the Treason Trial (PictureL API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Its aim was ... now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, famous for having three South African ...

In the courtroom, this entailed asking Alan Paton, a world famous novelist ... up a march to Nelson Mandela’s prison in 1985 [File: David Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images] By the 1980s ...

Those facts aside, many people have the false memory that Mandela died in prison in the 1980s — a phenomenon so prominent that ... Why do some people remember Nelson Mandela dying 30 years ...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela actively protested apartheid for most of his life, and he is known for being one of the world's most famous political prisoners. His anti-apartheid ...

Photo: Nelson Mandela revisits his prison cell on Robben Island in 1994, where he had spent 18 of his 27 years in prison. (Getty Images) Nelson Mandela’s retirement from politics didn’t reduce ...

A descendent of "freedom fighters," Dlamini's grandfathers are King Sobhuza II, who fought for the independence of Swaziland, and Nelson Mandela, the first black President of South Africa. Dlamini was ...