Do you remember Darth Vader's famous Star Wars quote as, “Luke, I am your father”? Or perhaps you recall The Berenstein Bears books from your childhood? If either rings true, then you’re experiencing ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Zoleka Mandela, a granddaughter of Nelson Mandela whose life was tangled up in addiction, a suicide attempt, a battle with cancer and the tragedy of losing two young ...

In 1990, "60 Minutes'' correspondent Bob Simon reported on Nelson Mandela's return to Soweto and reflects on Mandela's journey to unite his country. February 1990. Mandela was not only free, he was ...

This historic home is now a museum with an overnight rate. The former house and surrounding gardens of former South African president and anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela is now accepting ...

Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in what was then known as the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire. Although the majority of the country’s inhabitants were Black, they ...

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid activist who was married to Nelson Mandela for nearly four decades, died in Johannesburg at age 81 on Monday after what her spokesman called ...

Few public figures of the past 100 years have made as astounding a global impact as Nelson Mandela. The first democratically elected president of South Africa, Mandela was to his country what Martin ...

Zoleka Mandela, the granddaughter of late South African leader Nelson Mandela who followed “in her grandfather’s footsteps,” has died after an 11-year battle with cancer that spread throughout her ...

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One autumn evening, Nelson Mandela answered a knock at his front door and found himself facing his most dangerous enemy. The man’s name was General Constand Viljoen, and he was dubbed the “ultimate ...

As a Times correspondent in South Africa during the final violent spasms of the apartheid regime and the jubilant election of the country’s first black president in 1994, I noticed something odd about ...