Nobel Prize stolen from home of South Africa's last apartheid leader
De Klerk received the prize in 1993 alongside anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, for his role in ushering South Africa into democracy.
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De Klerk received the prize in 1993 alongside anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, for his role in ushering South Africa into democracy.
President Obama addressed the massive crowd of mourners assembled to honor Nelson Mandela at FNB Stadium in Soweto. Obama remembered the former South African president as a pioneer against racism, and an instrument of positive change.
Tuesday morning the world looked on during the moving the memorial for anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.
Following his release from a 27-year prison sentence, Nelson Mandela addressed a large crowd of his supporters at a rally in Cape Town, Feb. 11, 1990.
The memorial service for Nelson Mandela features tributes by some of the anti-apartheid icon's family members and foreign leaders, including President Obama, Cuban President Raul Castro, and the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports from inside the memorial at FNB stadium in Soweto Township near Johannesburg.
Like her parents, Zindzi Mandela was involved in the fight against apartheid. The cause of her death was not immediately revealed.
She says her family, even from a young age, was acutely aware of his significance in the world and his fight for freedom
Nelson Mandela Foundation says it has discovered what is thought to be the first known television interview with Mandela, decades before he became South Africa’s first black president
On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years behind bars; CBS News' Bob Simon was there
Governments have changed since Nelson Mandela ran his resistance movement in Alexandra, South Africa; but open sewers, over-crowding endure
South Africans have been gathering to pray for and celebrate the beloved former president
A look at the remote village where the former South African president and Nobel laureate lived as a boy and later retired from public life
Anti-apartheid leader, 94, had been hospitalized since December 8 and was diagnosed with a lung infection
Joy and criticism of promises unfulfilled accompanies the ANC's centennial celebration in South Africa
Heritage of anti-apartheid icon, ex-South African president online in Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project
Across South Africa, people did good deeds to honor the anti-apartheid icon
Former president and anti-apartheid leader is frail, but jubilant nation marks birthday with songs, public service
Small, white extremist group's leader found guilty of treason in trial that's dragged on for nine years
Secretary of state reminisces with former president over small, private lunch during tour of continent
Anti-apartheid leader, 94, is still recovering from surgery and lung infection in his longest hospital stay since he left prison
Across South Africa, and even abroad, people are doing good deeds to honor the country's most famous statesman on his 94th birthday
The anti-apartheid militant emerged from 27 years in prison to lead South Africa's first fully representative government