JOHANNESBURG - A new, 29.5-foot sculpture of Nelson Mandela is billed as ... a department spokesman. "The statue represents what everyone in South Africa is proud of." His department said in ...

South Africa’s largest monument to Nelson Mandela: a 30-foot bronze statue in Pretoria, South Africa’s executive capital. Credit... Supported by By Lynsey Chutel Photographs by Gulshan Khan In ...

PRETORIA, South Africa – South Africa has unveiled a gigantic statue of anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela to cheers and singing at the Union Buildings in its capital. The mood was joyous ...

Today, outside the main gate, there is a dramatic bronze statue of ... many of South Africa’s most famous political prisoners, including Boer war leaders, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi ...

JOHANNESBURG — Friends and family of Nelson Mandela laid wreaths Friday at a bronze statue of the late statesman ... Mandela spent 27 years in prison under South Africa’s segregationist ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A new, 9-meter (29.5-foot) sculpture of Nelson Mandela is billed ... a department spokesman. “The statue represents what everyone in South Africa is proud of.” ...

A new statue of South Africa’s first black president, the late Nelson Mandela, was unveiled at the country’s parliament on Monday, as legislators paid tribute to the world icon. “The unveiling of this ...

And that is how the world remembers Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), the iconic anti-apartheid activist, the first Black president of South Africa and ... being the 9ft bronze statue - the first ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — When Nelson Mandela’s sculpture was ... signature to the work,” the statement said. The statue, depicting Mandela with his trademark smile and arms open wide ...

South Africa appeared to be poised on the brink of civil war in the early 1990s. Nelson Mandela, a former prisoner who had been reviled as a "terrorist" by the government for decades, earned the ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP ... They attended a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s death before a statue of the former South African President at the seat of government ...

and Nelson Mandela bridge, which produces an LED light show at night. Getty Images The statue of Mandela in Pretoria, South Africa. Constitution Hill, an old fort turned courthouse and jail for ...