Former President Donald Trump was asked on Friday about the time, in 1990, that he flew the late South African President Nelson Mandela and 80 others out to the U.S. "The United States government wasn ...

JOHANNESBURG - South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela died peacefully at home at the age of 95 on Thursday after months fighting a lung infection, leaving his nation and the world in ...

Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa whose revolutionary politics and revolution in humanitarianism gave rise to his legend as the embodiment of peace on Earth and to the fall of ...

4. Mandela's father, Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela, died from lung disease. Nelson was 12 years old at the time. 5. Mandela was then raised by a Thembu regent, Chief Jongintaba Dalindyebo, for whom ...