Sidelsky and Eidelman gave a young black man a job as a clerk. It was among the first encounters in what would become a lifelong relationship between Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s tiny ...

TREVOR MCDONALD: In the 1940s South Africa was under apartheid rule: the doctrine that white people were somehow superior to Black people. The white police force sometimes tortured and killed the ...

1. Nelson Mandela was the first black president of South Africa from 1994-1999 and the first president elected after the end of apartheid, an extensive system of segregation and discrimination ...

Nelson Mandela was “trying to come to the United ... who spent 27 years in prison before becoming South Africa’s first Black ...

In 1994 he became the first black President of South Africa. He worked hard to bring all South Africans of all skin colours together. Nelson Mandela died in 2013, aged 95. Over his long life ...

Idris Elba details how he spent a night in a South African prison to ready for Nelson Mandela role - The actor was the lead ...

This week, Nelson Mandela, affectionately referred to ... He emerged from incarceration and became South Africa’s first ever black president. It was the first time Mandela himself was able ...

Nat Bregman, who was described by anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela ... color-blind and became my first white friend," Mandela wrote. Mandela, the former president of South Africa and a ...

Take a look at the 'rap sheet' of late president Nelson Mandela's grandson ... whose father was the late Magkatho Mandela – has often been called the “black sheep of the family”.

Idris Elba is recalling how he prepared to play Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. “In 2013, when ...