February 11, 1990, is a date that the world will never forget. On this Sunday afternoon, after 27 years, Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster Prison in South Africa. Nelson Mandela was a leader ...

Every prisoner is a human being who deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. This principle imposes an absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or ...

Nelson Mandela's granddaughter Tukwini Mandela says running a fair trade business is an important part of staying true to her family's legacy. Mandela is in Winnipeg this week to speak at the National ...

In the forward to Nelson Mandela’s 2010 book of letters, President Barack Obama wrote that “even when little sunlight shined into that Robben Island cell, he could see a better future — one worthy of ...

Disasters tend to be loud and bloody, but success is often quiet — the absence of fighting, the want of an uproar, a lack of fuss. On Sunday, as South Africa came together in a national day of ...

Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa whose revolutionary politics and revolution in humanitarianism gave rise to his legend as the embodiment of peace on Earth and to the fall of ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday marked 36 years since Nelson Mandela’s release from prison by launching a new training academy at the Drakenstein Correctional Facility, where the former ...

Robben Island was built to silence revolutionaries. Instead, it produced them. Behind its barbed wire, Nelson Mandela and his comrades transformed from prisoners into leaders — shaping the strategy, ...

Unlike many struggle veterans, Kathrada never held public political office after the fall of apartheid. Unlike many struggle veterans, Kathrada, who was imprisoned on Robben Island, never held public ...