Eyedea Presse/Gamma Mandela, center, stands amid a gathering of other co-defendants during the Treason Trial. Barry Von Below Mandela sews prison clothes by the shore in 1964.

I.D.A.F./SIPA. Born Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela on July 18, 1918 (he was nicknamed "Nelson" by a teacher), Mandela worked in his parents' rural village of Qunu, South Africa, tilling fields and ...

Nelson Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 in the Transkei region of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province. The anti-apartheid icon, who was imprisoned for 27 years, served as the country's first ...

South African President Nelson Mandela, born on July 18, 1918, spent nearly three decades in prison during his struggle against apartheid, before he was released on Feb. 11, 1990. On Dec. 5, 2013, … ...

Nelson Mandela became a defendant in the so-called Rivonia treason trial because he helped found Spear of the Nation, the military wing of the ANC - here is his address from the dock on April 20, 1964 ...

Fifty years after the Raid on Liliesleaf Dennis Goldberg remembers the impact Nelson Mandela’s trial made on the group. Mandela treason trial ‘lit a flame’ Home Page ...

South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela was reunited on Friday with anti-apartheid activists who faced trial with him during the 1950s and 1960s. Mandela, ex-treason trialists reunited.

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 1999 file photo, Ahmed Kathrada reads from a just-published book of his prison correspondence in the cell where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island, near Cape ...

Arrest and the Trial: In December 1956, a nationwide police raid resulted in Mandela's arrest, along with 155 others. This event led to the infamous Treason Trial, a lengthy legal battle targeting ...

Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid icon who became the first president of a democratic South Africa, passed away Thursday at his home in Johannesburg after a prolonged lung infection. He was 95.

JOHANNESBURG - Most of the seven men sentenced with Nelson Mandela to life in prison for sabotage and plotting to overthrow the white government were arrested in July 1963 during a police raid on ...