Friday (Dec. 5) marks 22 years since Nelson Mandela died. The famed anti-apartheid activist and first President of South Africa left an indelible mark on the fight for social justice and democracy. As ...

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 ...

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No one is indispensable. Yet history is full of individuals whose absence or presence changed the course of human events and altered the fate of nations. Most of these were autocrats whose ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela’s South African journey from anti-apartheid leader to prisoner to president to global statesman — the “Long Walk to Freedom” of his autobiography title — is one of ...

We now turn to South Africa, where the African National Congress, or ANC, the party of Nelson Mandela and Africa's oldest liberation movement, faces its biggest test at the polls in a matter of days.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, HOST: Now, in South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa is resisting calls to resign over allegations that he might have covered up at the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars ...