(AP) Leaders and family members on Sunday praised South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela as a man who united and freed his nation by fighting to end racist rule and then embracing ...

World leaders, President Obama among them, used the memorial service for Nelson Mandela as an opportunity to meet and greet and schmooze. No glowing eulogy would make the late, great liberator any ...

Songs, speeches and the boom of artillery rang across Nelson Mandela's home village during his funeral Sunday as a tribal chief draped in animal skin declared: "A great tree has fallen." South Africa ...

South African president Jacob Zuma discussed additional ways mourners can pay tribute to anti-apartheid leader. By The Associated Press Nelson Mandela - H 2013 JOHANNESBURG — Flags were lowered to ...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela reacts at the Mandela foundation, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday June 2, 2009, during a meeting with a group of American and South African ...

Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge will lead a Congressional Black Caucus delegation to South Africa to attend Tuesday's memorial service for former President Nelson Mandela in ...

QUNU, South Africa -- Songs, speeches and the boom of artillery rang across Nelson Mandela's home village during his funeral Sunday as a tribal chief adorned in a leopard skin declared: "A great tree ...

State Department contract awards were posted this week for “Transportation services in support of Mandela Funeral” and “Accommodation in support of the Nelson Mandela funeral in South Africa.” The ...