This week, Nelson Mandela, affectionately referred to by his clan or family name, Madiba, would have turned 100. The legacy of this iconic leader lives on in the hearts of a nation and a global ...

Nelson Mandela was a famous leader. A man who went from being a prisoner to a President and became an inspiration to people all over the world! Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa.

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 ...

In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that many people believed, as she did, that anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. In fact ...

Take a look at the 'rap sheet' of late president Nelson Mandela's grandson Mbuso Mandela after Wednesday's arrest. Clockwise from left: A hijacked Uber vehicle was recovered at late president ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

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 ...

Police at the home of late former president Nelson Mandela. Picture: The Citizen/Michel Bega Police have arrested five suspects including an alleged grandchild of Nelson Mandela at the late former ...

Idris Elba says he ‘heard strange noise’s during his night in a South African prison to prepare for his Nelson Mandela role (Getty Images for Paramount Pictu) However, he still took value from ...

Whole crowds can also collectively remember things incorrectly – this phenomenon goes by the name of the Mandela effect. It is named after the fact that many people thought that Nelson Mandela had ...