The "Mandela Effect" is the nickname given to the phenomenon of large numbers of people incorrectly remembering the same thing in the same way, either a historical event or perhaps a scene from a ...

Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela once said: "When two neighboring countries fight each other, just know the USA visited one." A claim that anti-apartheid activist and former President of South ...

President Obama on Thursday paid tribute to the legacy of Nelson Mandela, the iconic South African leader who died Thursday at the age of 95. "I cannot fully imagine my own life without the example ...

Nelson Mandela died on Thursday, at the age of ninety-five. Mandela’s life was singular and indispensable, and over the years The New Yorker has been lucky enough to catch glimpses of it. They show a ...

A decade after the death of Nelson Mandela, many South Africans are asking what the anti-apartheid icon would have thought of the current state of the country and the direction it's heading in. Nelson ...

A number of commentators on the left (myself included) have indulged in a bit of, well not exactly Schadenfreude, but perhaps a bit of gleefulness over one side effect of Nelson Mandela's death last ...

Springboks victory in World Cup at home was defining moment for South Africa Mandela saw importance of rugby to millions of white South Africans He recognized transformative power that sport could ...

Even the greatest among us can stumble. As the world mourns the passing of Nelson Mandela, it is important to look at the one area where the iconic former president of South Africa slipped — AIDS. The ...

Nelson Mandela was an inspirational speaker and anti-apartheid revolutionary. — -- Today marks the anniversary of Nelson Mandela's inauguration as South Africa's first democratically-elected ...

On 18 July 1918, Rolihlahla Mandela was born in the small village of Mvezo in South Africa. He was the son of Chief Henry Mandela of the Madiba clan. But Nelson – as he later came to be known – gave ...

Warning: The video above contains graphic descriptions of torture and killings. When we asked veteran 60 Minutes producer Michael Gavshon to choose the story that most embodies the spirit of the late ...

Richard Stengel is the former Editor of TIME, an MSNBC analyst, and the author of Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation. In 2018, the late Nelson Mandela would have ...