Nelson Mandela is a South African lawyer who joins the African National Congress in the 1940s when the law under the Apartheid system's brutal tyranny proves useless for his people. Forced to ...

Follows the life of Nelson Mandela and his fight for freedom - from his childhood, to his 27 years in prison before becoming president and working to rebuild South Africa's once segregated society.

(CNN)-- Whether talking about his time in prison, his struggle against apartheid, his emergence as a global icon or cracking a joke about his career, Nelson Mandela's words often have a resonance ...

Nelson Mandela, whose successful struggle against South Africa’s apartheid system of racial segregation and discrimination made him a global symbol for the cause of human rights and earned him ...

When we were founded in 1961 our sole purpose was to work to free prisoners of conscience – those unfairly jailed for peacefully speaking out and criticising the authorities. In 1962, Nelson Mandela ...

Nelson Mandela was a South African revolutionary political figure and activist. Universally praised for publicly spearheading opposition to apartheid, he became the country's first democratically ...

TREVOR MCDONALD: In the 1940s South Africa was under apartheid rule: the doctrine that white people were somehow superior to Black people. The white police force sometimes tortured and killed the ...

Clegg's sculpture joined those of a hundred other resistance leaders and freedom fighters, including Nelson and Winnie ...

Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. During a recent interview with The Sunday Times ...

Reggae music and the battle for racial equality, especially during the dark days of Apartheid South Africa, went hand in hand. Reggae superstars such as Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff and ...