If you think Nelson Mandela is a born leader, you'd be right: At birth, he was in line to become a chief among his Xhosa people. He renounced his claim to fight for freedom. This week, a happy Mandela ...

Pretoria, South Africa: Thousands of mourners yesterday braved the morning chill and afternoon heat as they lined up for hours to view Nelson Mandela’s body. The remains of the late Mandela still lie ...

JOHANNESBURG - An ox will be slaughtered, the deceased will be wrapped in a leopard skin and a family elder will keep talking to the body's spirit. The state funeral for Nelson Mandela on Sunday will ...

Take a look at Nelson Mandela’s life story like you’ve never seen it before at Mandela: The Official Exhibition, a new Saint Louis Science Center exhibit featuring unseen footage, photos, artifacts, ...

“UBUNTU,” is a word from the Xhosa language that loosely translates as “I am because you are.” It’s a word that expresses the solidarity of all people and the responsibility of each individual for an ...

The world came to a collective pause Thursday to mourn the death of human rights leader Nelson Mandela. A prolific anti-apartheid activist and the first black president of South Africa, Mandela, 95, ...

On Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday today, India sees the release of Goodbye Bafana, a film that sees South Africa's evolution to a democratic state from the eyes of a racist white Afrikaner James ...

PRETORIA (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela's body was being flown on Saturday to South Africa's Eastern Cape region, headed for a state funeral on Sunday in his ancestral village after a send-off for the ...

No one is indispensable. Yet history is full of individuals whose absence or presence changed the course of human events and altered the fate of nations. Most of these were autocrats whose ...

(AP) An ox will be slaughtered, the deceased will be wrapped in a leopard skin and a family elder will keep talking to the body’s spirit: The state funeral for South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Nelson Mandela's casket was draped in a lion skin, an ox was ritually slaughtered and a family elder kept talking to the body's spirit: The state funeral for South Africa's ...