Nelson Mandela

After nearly three months in the hospital, Nelson Mandela went home in an ambulance Sunday. According to South African President Jacob Zuma, Mandela is still in critical condition and will receive intensive care at home from the same team of doctors who treated him during his hospital stay.

(CNN) -- As an ailing Nelson Mandela recuperates in a South African hospital, the world celebrated his 95th birthday Thursday, honoring his...

A former president of South Africa says he expects Nelson Mandela to soon be discharged from the hospital to recuperate at home. South Africa’s radio broadcaster Eyewitness News reported on Sunday that Thabo Mbeki was speaking at a memorial service Saturday when he predicted that Mandela would be going home. Mandela has ...

The Nelson Mandela Foundation is hoping that volunteers around the world donate just over an hour of their time when South Africa’s former president turns 95 next week. Mandela remained hospitalized Wednesday in critical but stable condition for a recurring ...

Xhosa King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, ruler of the Thembu tribe to which the Mandela family belongs, has requested that 94-year-old Nelson Mandela‘s grandson, Mandla Mandela, 39, be stripped of his chieftancy in light of his “scandalous” removal of three Mandela family graves, reports the Associated Foreign Press. ...

(CNN) -- I have never met Nelson Mandela, but we have had many conversations. In my family's tiny shack in Nairobi's Kibera...

(AP) — As Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition in hospital Friday, a family feud over where the 94-year-old former president should be buried went to the courts, according to South Africa’s national broadcaster. Mandela’s oldest daughter, Makaziwe, and 15 other family members have pressed a court application to get Mandela’s gr ...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela, 94, has been downgraded from ‘serious but stable’ to ‘critical condition’ after taking a turn for the worse in the last 24 hours, according to the South African government. According to ...

Former South African president Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a lung infection after spending eight days in a Pretoria hospital, his grandson Mandla Mandela says. Mandla claims the 94 year old “looked good,” after a recent hospital visit. “Madiba is recovering very well and looks good,” Mandla Mandela said in Qunu, a village in the Eastern C ...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to the hospital in South Africa and his condition is listed as “serious but stable,” according to a presidential spokesperson. Mandela, 94, has been battling a recurring lung infection, but his condition deteriorated rapidly overnight. Mandela, ...