WASHINGTON — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Saturday paid tribute to the late first black South African President Nelson Mandela, describing the liberation icon as "a champion of the oppressed".

Former South African President Nelson Mandela has spent a second night in hospital where he is being treated for a lung infection. Doctors say there has been little change and his condition continues ...

Nelson Mandela has made his first television appearance in almost a year. The anti-apartheid hero looked thin and frail in his Johannesburg home, where he has been resting after a bout of pneumonia.

Francois Pienaar, even 25 years on, conveys a sense of disbelief and awe when he talks of that crisp Highveld winter's day that the Springboks won the Rugby World Cup for the first time. President ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Nelson Mandela was a President for South Africa with 58 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1990 Speech as a Deputy President for the African ...

The following is reaction to the death of Nelson Mandela on Thursday at age 95. South African President Jacob Zuma: "Our people have lost a father. Although we knew this day was going to come, nothing ...

President Obama on Tuesday hailed anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela as a “giant of history who moved a nation toward justice, and in the process moved billions around the world” at a memorial service ...