In 2005, Nelson Mandela delivered a speech in the center of London and called on a new generation to be great. He had three clear demands – to make trade fair, cancel unpayable debt, and increase and ...

If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart" Nelson Mandela led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy, and was the country's ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...