First black president

Nelson Mandela, the revered statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of decades of apartheid, has died.

Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, social reformer, politician, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the first black South African to hold the office, and the first elected in a fully-representative election. His government focused on...

17 facts about Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president and a key figure in ending apartheid in South Africa.

Nelson Mandela was today buried in the remote village where the anti-apartheid icon grew up after his four-hour state funeral this morning.

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A tribute to her father, Makaziwe Mandela shares the most definitive portrait of Nelson Mandela to date, revealing the man behind the anti-apartheid movement that changed the world. One of Time magazine's Most Important People of the Twentieth Century, Nelson Mandela continues to be a symbol of equality and justice: a Nobel Prize winner, South Africa's first Black president, and an unrelenting leader in the movement to dismantle racial inequality. Written by his daughter, her story uncovers…

The South African freedom fighter’s letters from prison remind us that the separation of families is the ultimate expression of state power.

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