Family members, friends and political figures including South African President Jacob Zuma paid tribute to Nelson Mandela at his funeral in Qunu. Photo: AP ...

July 18 is Nelson Mandela Day, and in honor of the anti-apartheid activist and first black president of South Africa, we're reliving a famous speech he gave in Cape Town in 1990 after his release ...

Here are a selection of speeches he gave after his release from prison in 1990, and while as president in 1994. Nelson Mandela, South African leader and apartheid foe, died Thursday at 95.

Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster Prison in the Western Cape on the 11th of February 1990, marking a historic point in ...

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, suspended an account owned by the grandson of former South African President Nelson ... speech, but the timing is questionable. Mandela has spent the ...