Mandela Village

South Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said on Friday. Gathering scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers, the biennial conference is the biggest single get-together on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 20th conference in M...

Mandla Mandela, grandson of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, won't comment on a report that he was locked out of the family's homestead in the village of Qunu by relatives.

South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela received a tearful state funeral at his childhood village of Qunu on Sunday.

South African troops and mounted police patrolled Nelson Mandela's boyhood home of Qunu today, with the village under virtual security lockdown.

In Nelson Mandela's childhood village of Qunu residents are solemnly preparing for the final return of their beloved son, who will be laid to rest among them, a week from now.

The sidewalk blackboard outside the pizza parlor in South Africa's quaint seaside village Kalk Bay, inhabited mainly by whites, changed for the first time in months on Friday.

On the rolling hills where a young Nelson Mandela once tended cattle, everybody is thinking about the herd boy who changed the course of South African history -- but few people are talking about him.

Schoolchildren in Nelson Mandela's home village are singing songs in his honor and others are leaving balloons and well wishes outside the hospital where he is being treated.

In the rural South African village where he once roamed as a boy, the lowered flags at Nelson Mandela's homestead are a constant reminder of his absence.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is leaving Johannesburg on Tuesday to take up residence in his eastern home village of Qunu, the country's current leader said Monday. In a statement Monday, President Jacob Zuma said Mandela will stay in Qunu indefinitely.

Children from the village where Nelson Mandela was born and another nearby where he was raised have been flown to Johannesburg to help him celebrate his birthday.

South Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said on Friday. Gathering scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers, the biennial conference is the biggest single get-together on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 20th conference in M...

Mandla Mandela, grandson of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, won't comment on a report that he was locked out of the family's homestead in the village of Qunu by relatives.

South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela received a tearful state funeral at his childhood village of Qunu on Sunday.

South African troops and mounted police patrolled Nelson Mandela's boyhood home of Qunu today, with the village under virtual security lockdown.

In Nelson Mandela's childhood village of Qunu residents are solemnly preparing for the final return of their beloved son, who will be laid to rest among them, a week from now.

The sidewalk blackboard outside the pizza parlor in South Africa's quaint seaside village Kalk Bay, inhabited mainly by whites, changed for the first time in months on Friday.

On the rolling hills where a young Nelson Mandela once tended cattle, everybody is thinking about the herd boy who changed the course of South African history -- but few people are talking about him.

Schoolchildren in Nelson Mandela's home village are singing songs in his honor and others are leaving balloons and well wishes outside the hospital where he is being treated.

In the rural South African village where he once roamed as a boy, the lowered flags at Nelson Mandela's homestead are a constant reminder of his absence.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is leaving Johannesburg on Tuesday to take up residence in his eastern home village of Qunu, the country's current leader said Monday. In a statement Monday, President Jacob Zuma said Mandela will stay in Qunu indefinitely.

Children from the village where Nelson Mandela was born and another nearby where he was raised have been flown to Johannesburg to help him celebrate his birthday.