Picture: Neil McCartney / The Citizen Anti-apartheid activist and the late former president Nelson Mandela’s friend, Mac Maharaj, described former president Jacob Zuma’s years in office as a “disaster ...

February 11, 1990, 35 years ago, South African leader and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years.

On Feb. 11, 1990, South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. (Mandela would be ...

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The blockade of Gaza, which has been in place since 2007, has turned the region into what some call an “open-air prison.” The International Court of Justice has declared Israel an apartheid state ...

Joe Biden "accomplished something that President Obama didn't do," 91-year-old Julius Garvey told Newsweek about his father's posthumous pardon.

Idris Elba says he ‘heard strange noise’s during his night in a South African prison to prepare for his Nelson Mandela role (Getty Images for Paramount Pictu) However, he still took value from ...

Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. During a recent interview with The Sunday Times ...

Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. During a recent interview with The Sunday Times, ...

“In 2013, when I was preparing to play Nelson Mandela in the film Long Walk to Freedom, I spent the night in a prison cell on Robben Island, 12 km outside Cape Town, where Mandela was imprisoned ...