Nelson Mandela, President of the Republic of South Africa, addressing the fifty-third session of the General Assembly. 21 September 1998. United Nations, New York.

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 ...

Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in what was then known as the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire. Though the majority of its inhabitants were Black, they were ...