As South Africa marks the 65th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, where 69 peaceful protesters lost their lives ...

Nelson Mandela was a South African revolutionary political figure and activist. Universally praised for publicly spearheading opposition to apartheid, he became the country's first democratically ...

July 1991 – Mandela is elected president of the ANC ... 1999 – Mandela leaves office and establishes the Nelson Mandela Foundation. January 19, 2000 – Addresses the UN Security Council ...

Anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela's grandson ... Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected president and first Black president in 1994. He served for one term before stepping ...

The celebrated South African playwright was known for Blood Knot, The Road to Mecca and "Master Harold"...and the Boys. He said his job was to make "leaps out of my reality and into other realities." ...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in 1918 in the village ... Four years later he was elected president. Among his appointees was Arthur Chaskalson, a member of his defense team during the Rivonia ...

The late South African leader Nelson Mandela has left a lasting legacy that might be applicable to the Korean Peninsula as ...

One episode focuses on Nelson Mandela, the South African leader ... of the food and the treatment of a canteen worker. Mandela was elected to the students’ representative council: the rest ...

Nelson Mandela devoted his life to the service of humanity as a human rights lawyer, an international peacemaker and the first democratically elected president of a free South Africa. On Mandela Day, ...

Here is a look at the life of Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of South Africa. Personal Birth date: July 18, 1918 Death date: December 5, 2013 Birth place: Mvezo, ...