South Africa left before it was pushed ... The will to maintain the system of apartheid began to flag. Nelson Mandela was finally released in 1990 and the country went to the polls in the first ...

Mandela was called both “the world’s most famous political prisoner” and “South Africa’s Great Black ... Zuma orders all flags in the nation to be flown at half-staff through the state ...

Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa. Most South Africans were black but some were white, Asian or mixed race. White people were in charge of the government and set up an unfair system of laws ...