Nelson Mandela was in his 20s when he joined the ANC, a political organization that advocated for the rights of Black South Africans. At the time, the system was dominated by white South Africans ...

This begs the question: why I have chosen to compare the lives and legacies of Jan Smuts, a white supremacist leader of South Africa, and Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist leader of the ...

It was more than three decades ago that Nelson Mandela ... that treated Black people as less than human. Mandela’s struggle while imprisoned, and refusal to bow down to white supremacy ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — In a country where racial segregation was once brutally enforced, South Africa’s new coalition government has brought a Black president and a white opposition leader ...

white historians. And I do think the ultimate biography of Nelson Mandela is still yet to be written, and that will be written by a Black South African. And I helped him tell the story that he ...

Johannesburg — On April 27, 1994, Black and White South Africans voted side by side for a new government for the first time in the country's history. Nelson Mandela's party, the African National ...

Fast-forward 30 years and Nelson Mandela’s erstwhile ... concentrated in the Black majority, in large part due to the failure of public schooling, while most White South Africans have jobs ...

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love ...

Nelson Mandela is revered worldwide and celebrated on July 18, his birthday. But at home, a younger generation is disillusioned with the country, his party and the anti-apartheid leader, too.

Should the city’s Black neighborhoods secede and form a new city? The city, named Mandela after anti-apartheid leader and future South Africa president Nelson Mandela, would stretch 12 miles and ...