The ANC was the party of Nelson Mandela and freed South Africa from the apartheid system of white minority rule in 1994. It had governed with a comfortable majority since then.

When Ramaphosa – Mandela’s favorite to succeed him as leader – replaced scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma as president, he pledged “to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.” ...

Barely two weeks after he was released from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela flew to Zambia to meet with African leaders who had supported his fight against South Africa's apartheid system of forced ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The planned auction of dozens of artifacts belonging to Nelson Mandela has been suspended pending a court application to completely halt it, the body that protects South ...

South Africa has announced it is set to challenge a New York auction of dozens artifacts and personal items belonging to former South African president Nelson Mandela.

Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela, center, with Hamas official Basem Naim, center right, during a march to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of former South African president ...

South Africa is to have its first coalition government in the wake of an election that saw the late Nelson Mandela's party lose its majority.

We now turn to South Africa, where the African National Congress, or ANC, the party of Nelson Mandela and Africa's oldest liberation movement, faces its biggest test at the polls in a matter of days.

An auction of Nelson Mandela’s possessions is suspended as South Africa fights to keep them By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME The Associated Press, Updated January 30, 2024, 3:32 p.m.

South Africa’s archbishop emeritus and honorary Elders, Desmond Tutu, gestures while delivering a speech during the memorial service for late South African President Nelson Mandela at Soccer ...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, second left, Nelson Mandela’s former wife, and Mandela’s window Graca Machel, right, listen to speeches during the memorial service for former South African ...

South Africa’s chief rabbi, Warren Goldstein, conveyed the Jewish community’s prayers and support to the daughter of ailing former President Nelson Mandela. Mandela, 94, remains critically ill ...