Qunu, South Africa: South Africa's anti-apartheid icon was laid to rest on Sunday December 15. He died on Thursday December 5 after a recurring lung infection. Here is the verbatim obituary read by ...

JOHANNESBURG, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to multi-racial democracy, as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the struggle for ...

Nelson Mandela ‘ s first wife, Evelyn Mandela, who quit the couple ‘ s marriage after telling him to choose between her and the African National Congress liberation movement, died April 30 at age 82, ...

South African President Jacob Zuma formally announced Mandela’s passing, saying “the founding president of our democratic nation, has departed.” He added that he “passed on peacefully.” Mandela will ...

Lazar Sidelsky, a Jewish lawyer who gave a young Nelson Mandela a job as a clerk, died in Johannesburg at 90. Taking on a young black man as a clerk was “something almost unheard of in those days,” ...