Nelson Mandela opens the gate between South Africa and Mozambique so elephants can move to a protected area. (Photo courtesy Peace Parks Foundation) JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, December 6, 2013 (ENS) ...

Nelson Mandela was always uncomfortable talking about his own death. But not because he was afraid or in doubt. He was uncomfortable because he understood that people wanted him to offer homilies ...

No one is indispensable. Yet history is full of individuals whose absence or presence changed the course of human events and altered the fate of nations. Most of these were autocrats whose ...

It is with deep sadness that the Government has learnt of the passing of the father of South Africa’s democracy – Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela on 5 December 2013. He passed on peacefully in the company ...

July 18 is Nelson Mandela‘s birthday; the late South African president and legendary anti-apartheid activist would have turned 104. His birthday has been declared Nelson Mandela International Day in ...

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 ...

On TV, CBC News Network, Radio, and online, CBC News has continuing coverage of the passing of a global icon of freedom With the passing of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president, CBC ...

Nelson Mandela, the revered statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of decades of apartheid, has died, South African President Jacob Zuma announced late Thursday.

Tributes to Nelson Mandela have been pouring in from around the world, including from the religious community. Pope Francis praised Mandela for promoting human dignity and forging a new South Africa ...

Even though it had been expected, I was jolted when I got the phone call with the news that after many long decades the defiant fire of resistance had gone out and Nelson Mandela had died. He was the ...