The Latest Breaking News from Nelson Mandela

The World Heritage Committee has this month inscribed 26 new cultural and natural properties to Unesco's World Heritage List, including five in Africa and one in French Polynesia.

As a HBO new documentary airs on Sky, the guitarist from the E Street Band talks to Craig McLean about being Springsteen’s right-hand man, acting in ‘The Sopranos’, fighting for Nelson Mandela, and how the corporate takeover has changed music forever

In the spring of 1994, apartheid ended in South Africa with the election of the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela's leadership. RFI interviews key activists three decades on.

Cyril Ramaphosa, leader of the famed party of Nelson Mandela, calls the coalition deal a ‘new birth, a new era for our country’

Cyril Ramaphosa, the former trade unionist and key participant in the fight against apartheid, is set to be given a second mandate as South Africa's president, albeit without an absolute majority in parliament. He remains the ANC leader too.

Deal between two traditionally antagonistic parties is the most momentous political shift in South Africa since Nelson Mandela led the ANC to victory in the 1994 elections that marked the end of apartheid

South Africa's long-standing ruling ANC said Thursday it has reached an agreement with several other parties to form a coalition, after failing to win an outright majority in May's general election.

South Africa’s 2024 general election, with its devastating loss of a majority for the ruling African National Congress (ANC), is also damaging for President Cyril Ramaphosa (71). To lead your party to such a huge loss of electoral support is an indictment, and the toughest test of your leadership capabilities.

Republican extremist tells crowd ‘The man that I worship is also a convicted felon’