Black and white, old and young, South Africans by the thousands paid final tribute Wednesday to their beloved Nelson Mandela. In silence or murmuring, they filed past the coffin. Some glanced back ...

Nelson Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 in the Transkei region of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province. The anti-apartheid icon, who was imprisoned for 27 years, served as the country's first ...

A statue of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, has been unveiled in the capital, Pretoria, a day after he was buried. The nine-metre bronze statue has been erected at the ...

The South African government has demand the engraved animal be taken removed from the nine-metre tall statue, which has been built in the former president’s honour. Hidden: The rabbit in Mandela ...

PRETORIA, South Africa — Just a short downhill walk from where Nelson Mandela's body rests for a final public viewing, a new steel statue is about to rise in his honor. As thousands of people ...

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 ...

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 expressed their worries ...

JOHANNESBURG – A new, 29.5-foot sculpture of Nelson Mandela is billed as the biggest statue of the South African leader. It also has a tiny, barely visible quirk: a sculpted rabbit tucked inside ...

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 ...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Black and white, old and young, South Africans by the thousands paid final tribute Wednesday to their beloved Nelson Mandela. In silence or murmuring, they filed ...