By Lance Chisue The continent’s true competitive advantage lies in its people – and the leaders who invest in them know it. For generations, the story...
The Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Naledi Pandor as its new Chair. Pandor will be the third...
AP | Whitney Houston ‘s epic concert in South Africa staged after President Nelson Mandela’s landmark election will be hitting theater screens this fall. Houston’s performance...
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Thursday that South Africa’s new Government of National Unity (GNU) will prioritize inclusive growth, job creation, and poverty reduction....
AP | The leader of South Africa’s second biggest party said Friday it will back Cyril Ramaphosa for president, almost guaranteeing he will be re-elected in...
By Gregory Simpkins The Republic of South Africa has long been considered the hub of the wheel of the southern Africa region. It is the most...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When John Rockefeller Jr. donated land to the United Nations (UN) after the Second World War, signs of the Cold War were...
By Gregory Simpkins As the world rightly focuses on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has inflicted such misery on other countries, there is a growing conflict that...
Seven-day mourning period is planned in Cape Town before Tutu’s burial.
He was viewed by many in South Africa as the last apartheid ruler, not the leader who helped steer the country away from violent racial oppression.
South Africa is an infinitely better place than it was in 1976. Young people have opportunities that were denied to their parents and grandparents - President...
Black Entertainment Television (BET) has announced it will air a mini-series about Nelson Mandela next year, with actor Laurence Fishburne portraying the late South African leader....
The second part of former South African President Nelson Mandela’s autobiography will be published next year. The best selling autobiography, “The Long Walk to Freedom,” depicts...
U.S. President Barack Obama answers questions at a Young African Leaders Initiative Town Hall at the University of Johannesburg Soweto campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, June...
Maya Angelou Maya Angelou, the award-winning writer, poet, actress and civil rights activist, was found dead Wednesday morning inside her Winston-Salem, N.C., home. The 86-year-old icon,...
South African President Jacob Zuma has unveiled a bust of Nelson Mandela, a day after the 20th anniversary of the first post-apartheid elections. Zuma said on...
South Africa marked 2 decades of multi-racial democracy on Sunday, still feeling the loss of Nelson Mandela and in sombre mood just 10 days before elections...
The casket bearing Nelson Mandela’s remains prior to being lowered into his grave. PHOTO/AFP/Getty Images Nelson Mandela was laid to rest Sunday in the green, rolling...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s body lying in state. PHOTO/Marco Longari/AFP Thousands of people queued on Wednesday to say goodbye to Nelson Mandela, whose body...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP More than 70 leaders from across the world, some of them locked in enmity, are flying to...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images South African President Jacob Zuma has declared a week of mourning across South Africa for Nelson Mandela...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/Reuters/Mike Hutchings One of the most beloved leaders of the 20th century, Nelson Mandela, the father of modern South Africa...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela is not “doing well” but is continuing to put up...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s biggest union is considering pulling out of the African National Congress (ANC)-aligned Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) labor federation to...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s former president, Nelson Mandela, remains “quite ill” and unable to speak because of tubes that...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (AFP) – A South African court began sentencing on Monday 20 right-wing extremists convicted of high treason...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African President and anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela was discharged from the hospital on Sunday while...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s health is slowly recovering but he remains in a...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP AP – The office of the South African president says Nelson Mandela has made a “sustained improvement”...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – South Africa and the world showered tributes on Nelson Mandela on Thursday as the anti-apartheid...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela may be discharged from hospital soon to recuperate at home, a former president of South...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP A grandson of Nelson Mandela said Tuesday the ailing former president is very much alive, while the...
FW de Klerk welcomes Nelson Mandela to his 70th birthday celebrations, March 18 2006. PHOTO/Mike Hutchings/ Reuters Two former South African presidents bound together in the...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP US President Barack Obama said Friday he would not press for a much-awaited meeting with his critically...
By Nicholas Sengoba The Western media took up these two issues with the usual manipulative aim of creating a new narrative. The story of South Africa...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela is still clinging to life, his eldest daughter Makaziwe...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela’s health has deteriorated and he is now in critical condition, the South African government said...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP A former South African president has said the health of Nelson Mandela is improving as the 94-year-old...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP The wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela says that love and generosity from across the...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former President Nelson Mandela began responding better to treatment Wednesday morning for a recurring lung infection following...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela’s lengthy absence from the spotlight has forced his adoring country to envisage what their hard-won...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African President Nelson Mandela was receiving medical treatment for a lung infection on Sunday after...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu – PHOTO/Martin Meissner/AP (Reuters) – South African anti-apartheid campaigner retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu has won the 2013 Templeton Prize worth US$1.7 million for...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – The condition of South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela has improved further, the government said...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African president Nelson Mandela was admitted to hospital on Saturday for a “routine...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s recovery is ‘on track’ at his home in Johannesburg,...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African President Nelson Mandela was released Wednesday from the hospital after being treated for a...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African leader Nelson Mandela will probably spend Christmas Day in a hospital because his doctors...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is spending a twelfth day in a South African hospital after being diagnosed...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela, the 94-year-old former South African president and Nobel Peace laureate hospitalized with a lung infection,...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP As the 94-year-old patriarch of South Africa’s democracy entered his seventh day of hospitalization Friday for a...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela “has made progress” in getting better after contracting a lung infection,...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela was admitted to a military hospital Saturday for medical tests, though...
A South African military aircraft on an unknown mission to an area near former President Nelson Mandela’s village crashed in a mountain range, killing all 11...
Spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama (r), presents the International Campaign for Tibet’s Light of Truth Award to South African Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu....
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s schoolchildren sang happy birthday to Nelson Mandela as he turned 94 on Wednesday, a day...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African President Nelson Mandela underwent minor surgery to determine the cause of a stomach complaint...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela (pictured), has been hospitalized with a stomach ailment, according to a government statement issued Saturday about the 93-year-old anti-apartheid icon....
Oprah Winfrey. PHOTO/File Oprah Winfrey makes no apologies for spending millions on an elite school for underprivileged South African girls. But she’s also looking for ways...
Against all odds, the party of Nelson Mandela has transformed a nation where just 20 years ago black South Africans could not vote, and beaches and...
In a strong slap at a young but powerful politician, South Africa’s governing party fired its controversial youth leader Thursday and suspended him from the African...
theGRIO REPORT - 'Winnie,' a film about Winnie Mandela will soon make it debut at the Toronto Film Festival, but Mandela does not support the film....
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A sexy dose of jazz and the refined strains of Western opera and traditional Xhosa song drive a new opera about South Africa's...
JOHANNESBURG — South African officials say they will build a dedicated museum honoring Nelson Mandela’s struggle against apartheid, on the site where he was arrested 49...
By Richard Stengel Courage is not the absence of fear — it’s inspiring others to move beyond it In 1994, during the presidential-election campaign, Mandela got...
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A new Nelson Mandela book, slim, bound in black and set in eye-straining type, looks a bit like a bible or a prayer...
First lady Michelle Obama arrived in South Africa on Monday for the start of a weeklong trip that officials have said will focus on youth leadership...
