One episode focuses on Nelson Mandela, the South African leader who ... cattle and used the money to flee to Johannesburg. There, a cousin introduced him to a powerful Black activist, Walter ...

(CNN)-- Whether talking about his time in prison, his struggle against apartheid, his emergence as a global icon or cracking a joke about his career, Nelson Mandela's words often have a resonance ...

Nelson Mandela was a famous leader. A man who went from being a prisoner to a President and became an inspiration to people all over the world! Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa.

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of South Africa. He was given the name Nelson by a school teacher. He was sometimes called ...

A few yards from the cell where former South African President Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on ... visited in the mid-60s,” said Joseph’s cousin, Reetamma. In long phone conversations with ...

In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that many people believed, as she did, that anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. In fact ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

Mandela was secretly appointed its commander in chief. "At the end of the day...violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid." Nelson Mandela, 1959 "Monitoring Mandela (Four Police ...

Whole crowds can also collectively remember things incorrectly – this phenomenon goes by the name of the Mandela effect. It is named after the fact that many people thought that Nelson Mandela had ...