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 ...

Family members, friends and political figures including South African President Jacob Zuma paid tribute to Nelson Mandela at his funeral in Qunu. Photo: AP ...

In a speech at a South African mosque ... May 2002– Lazar Sidelsky, a Jewish lawyer who afforded a young Nelson Mandela a job as a clerk in the face of apartheid restrictions, dies in ...

Obama’s speech comes as Trump faces overwhelming ... said that “Just by standing on the stage honouring Nelson Mandela, Obama is delivering an eloquent rebuke to Trump.” ...

The “flash” we sent last week on Nelson Mandela’s death brought a new flurry of attention to AP flashes. What are they and how often do we send them? A flash is our first word of a breaking story of ...

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 ...

The white police force sometimes tortured and killed the regime’s Black opponents. Nelson Mandela was a leader of the African National Congress, the main group arguing that all races should have ...