“She died after a long illness ... Mandela was formerly married to South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela and together the pair worked tirelessly to end apartheid.

On the anniversary of his birth, here are 100 facts about the historic peacemaker who died in 2013. 1. Nelson Mandela was the first black president of South Africa from 1994-1999 and the first ...

Mvezo is a village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa where Nelson Mandela was born. Nelson Mandela died at his Johannesburg home in 2013.

Nelson Mandela died in 2013, aged 95. Over his long life, he changed a nation and helped people all around the world understand that everyone should be treated the same.

When 91-year-old Nozolile Mtirara speaks of Nelson Mandela, she speaks of a simple man. The widow of one of Mr Mandela's cousins - and close childhood friend - she remembers a man who enjoyed ...

It is named after the fact that many people thought that Nelson Mandela had already died in prison. Which is not true. Mandela was released from prison in 1990 and was President of South Africa from ...

In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that many people believed, as she did, that anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. In fact ...