Nelson Mandela, who was jailed for 27 years by a white-minority government as a terrorist and walked free as a septuagenarian to lead South Africa to its first multiracial democracy, dies at 95.

Nelson Mandela and wife, Winnie, raise their fists upon his release from Victor Verster prison in South Africa. Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years for his fight against apartheid.

South African President Nelson Mandela, born on July 18, 1918, spent nearly three decades in prison during his struggle against apartheid, before he was released on Feb. 11, 1990. On Dec. 5, 2013 ...

Nelson Mandela, former South African president and an icon of the anti-apartheid movement, has died at age 92. Mandela spent 27 years in prison and became a potent symbol of apartheid's injustices ...

JOHANNESBURG - Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to multiracial democracy, as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the struggle for justice around ...

Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela accused Afrikaans refugees of a "coordinated effort to destabilize (South Africa) and incite ...

South Africa's first Black president, Nelson Mandela, died on Dec. 5, 2013. Revisit the speeches that made Mandela the most prominent figure of the anti-apartheid movement.

Madikizela-Mandela was born in 1936 and moved to Johannesburg to study social work after graduation. She met lawyer and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela in 1957 and the two married a year later.

Nelson Mandela and wife, Winnie, raise their fists upon his release from Victor Verster prison in South Africa. Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years for his fight against apartheid.

Nelson Mandela, who emerged from more than a quarter of a century in prison to steer a troubled African nation to its first multiracial democracy, uniting the country by reaching out to fearful ...