4. Mandela’s father, Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela, was a chief in the tribe, and the family was considered royalty. He died from lung disease when Nelson was 12 years old. 5. Mandela was ...

In BBC Radio 4’s podcast, History’s Youngest Heroes, Nicola Coughlan shines a light on extraordinary stories of rebellion, ...

The Nelson Mandela Foundation believes government has not worked hard enough to address historical land dispossessions.

The Mandela Effect is when a group of people misremember an event or detail, especially if it's historical, that never ...

A claim that anti-apartheid activist and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela once said that "when two neighboring countries fight each other, just know the USA visited one" has been ...

When my father-in-law passed away, I asked Mandela to wind up his estate ... But Mandela remained clear on his intention to stop the violence. On the 25th of February 1990, Nelson Mandela addressed ...

Audiences at RootsTech, a 3-day global family history event, will hear from "a couple" of gold medalists, the grandson of ...

Ahead of the launch of his biography on Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, writer Graeme Wilson talks about capturing the ...

John Smit revealed a special call from former South Africa President Nelson Mandela after the birth of his first child.

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

Gen X is still too young to be losing their memory, but there are some things most of them seem to remember wrong.