On February 11, 1990, South African Black Nationalist leader Nelson Mandela was freed after serving more than 27 years in ...

Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison, on Robben Island, at Pollsmoor and finally at Victor Verster. On 11 February 1990, amid mounting domestic unrest and growing international pressure, President ...

Today marks 36 years since former President Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. Mandela was released from the then Victor Verster Prison in 1990 after 27 years behind bars. His release signalled a ...

Nelson Mandela wrote to loved ones while in prison. Dec. 5, 2013 -- In the 27 years that Nelson Mandela spent imprisoned in South Africa, he wrote letters to his loved ones. Razia Saleh of the Nelson ...

Liveright Publishing, the W.W. Norton imprint, will publish the prison letters of former South African president and anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela. The book will include a foreword by ...

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When the anti-apartheid leader emerged from 27 years of confinement, South Africans knew their country was undergoing a seismic change. But they... Editor's Note: Wednesday marks the 25th anniversary ...

On February 11, the final pillars of the old state fell as military and government institutions fractured, and revolutionary forces took control. In the months that followed, Iran held a referendum ...

Former South African president Nelson Mandela’s biographer and those who knew him well reflected Sunday on the role that Mandela played in moving South Africa toward the end of its white-minority ...

One man spent 12 years by Mandela’s side during his prison term: his guard Christo Brand. Credit: Shutterstock / Adwo Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1962, Nelson Mandela spent 27 years as a ...

This article originally appeared on EW. Nelson Mandela penned hundreds of letters to loved ones, followers, government officials, and prison authorities during the 27 years he was held as a political ...