Nelson Mandela is showing a “sustained” improvement after more than a week in hospital battling a lung infection although his condition remains serious, South African President Jacob Zuma said Sunday.

MTHATHA – First Nelson Mandela arrived, then the tornado hit. A killer storm smashed into a pharmacy storefront in the town of Mthatha as South Africa’s most famous citizen, and then the country’s president, was buying soap. It was a life-changing moment for the woman who on that day 15 years ago came to Mandela’s aid. […]

A dozen South African bishops on Friday held a prayer vigil outside the hospital where former president Nelson Mandela has spent a week receiving treatment for a lung infection.

JOHANNESBURG – Nelson Mandela may soon take a commanding position in Cape Town, under city plans to erect a statue of him on the site where he made his first speech as a free man 23 years ago, an official said Thursday. The ailing statesman who has been in hospital for six days with a recurrent […]

As Nelson Mandela spent a fifth day in hospital Wednesday, one of his anti-apartheid comrades recalled the day exactly 49 years ago when they were sentenced to life imprisonment by the apartheid regime.

Nelson Mandela is responding better to treatment after the “difficult last few days”, South African President Jacob Zuma said Wednesday on the frail anti-apartheid hero’s fifth day in hospital.

Ordinarily the rural South African village of Qunu is a slow-paced blend of livestock, locals on foot and the occasional car winding along the smattering of roads and dirt paths that link humble homesteads

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.

South African President Jacob Zuma has sought to reassure an uneasy nation that Nelson Mandela, although in a “very serious” condition as he battles a recurrent lung infection, is receiving the best of care.