NELSON MANDELA: The strategy I would use would depend on the conditions. That's why we resorted to violence, for example - because the conditions demanded that we should take up arms.

Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) and Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) belonged to and were shaped by two different epochs in South Africa, yet left an indelible mark on its history.

The ANC liberated South Africa from apartheid in 1994 under Nelson Mandela, the country’s first Black president. Its three-decade political dominance ended in the landmark May 29 election ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks with writer Richard Stengel about Mandela: The Lost Tapes, which features never-before heard audio of his conversations with Nelson Mandela from 1993.

From the moment he saw her standing at a bus stop in the Black township of Soweto as he drove past in his two-tone, pastel-green Oldsmobile, Rolihlahla “Nelson” Mandela was besotted with ...

Nelson Mandela's party could lose its majority in South Africa 02:38. Johannesburg — On April 27, 1994, Black and White South Africans voted side by side for a new government for the first time ...

Nelson Mandela, in the Long Walk To Freedom, demanded that black people “forget the past“. This comes after white people, who ruled South Africa for more than 300 years, used their political ...

By 1946, Black people began to outnumber white people in cities. The white population’s response was apartheid. Still, Winnie and Nelson’s courtship coincided with a moment of immense optimism ...

In South Africa, with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Mandela was at least trying to force the white people of his native land to face the truth of what had been done to Black South ...

Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) and Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) belonged to and were shaped by two different epochs in South Africa, yet left an indelible mark on its history ...