The rolling green hills of the rural Transkei (see map) is the place Mandela thinks of as home; it is there he has built his retirement house. Growing up in the royal kraal of the Madiba clan ...

But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 into the Madiba tribal clan - part of the Thembu people - in a small village in the Eastern Cape of ...

the Nelson Mandela Foundation took a momentous step in seeking justice for the country's disenfranchised citizens. Thursday, December 5, marked the 11th anniversary of Madiba's passing ...