Nelson Mandela was born ... of Parliament and Westminster Abbey Mandela joked that "one day there would be a statue of a black person erected here."Picture: Sipa Press / Rex Features Credit ...

PRETORIA, South Africa - Joyous crowds of black South Africans celebrated the unveiling of a new Nelson Mandela statue in Pretoria on Monday while many white Afrikaners on the other side of town ...

Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in jail before being elected South Africa's first black president, is dead at age 95, South African President Jacob Zuma said Thursday. [PHOTOS: The Life of ...

As the leaders of the world gather in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly, the institution unveiled a statue to late South African President Nelson Mandela. The statue was ...

JOHANNESBURG — A new, 9-meter (29.5-foot) sculpture of Nelson Mandela is billed as the biggest statue of ... who opposed white rule and became South Africa’s first black president lay in ...

U.N. leaders honored Nelson ... 27 years, Mandela became the international face of the struggle to end the country's apartheid system of white minority rule over the majority black population.

Nelson Mandela is revered worldwide and celebrated on July 18, his birthday. But at home, a younger generation is disillusioned with the country, his party and the anti-apartheid leader, too.