As President Jacob Zuma announced a week of ceremonies, an outpouring of praise came from presidential offices, a prison, and from the streets.    

Those born after apartheid’s end say their determination to look to the future and not the past is the greatest tribute they can pay Nelson Mandela.    

Mr. Eglin, a South African politician, was at the forefront of his country’s white, liberal opposition to apartheid and helped draft the Constitution that ended it in 1993.    

The Soweto gym where Nelson Mandela trained in the 1950s is now a YMCA that has been newly renovated and is a haven for some men who are struggling to find work.    

Nelson Mandela was almost worshiped by many for his role in installing multiracial democracy, but political observers say he was never above reproach.    

Former Africa correspondents of The New York Times share their memories of Nelson Mandela.    

South Africans, world leaders and citizens of many nations reacted to the death of Nelson Mandela on Thursday.    

After an American teacher was killed in Libya, his students recalled how he would joke with them online.    

President Obama recalled that his public career began at an anti-apartheid rally in 1979, imbued with the hope Nelson Mandela had generated.    

An attack by Algerian Army helicopters killed a militant identified by some experts as a regional leader of Al Qaeda.    

A suicide car bomber struck a security force’s convoy on Thursday in northern Somalia, killing at least seven people and wounding 37.    

While imprisoned, Nelson Mandela supported the international sports boycott that helped isolate South Africa; as president, he used sports to reach across the racial divide.    

The moves, combined with a plan to transfer a detainee to Sudan, are signs that the Obama administration has revived efforts to winnow the population, now at 162.    

Mr. Mandela’s decades in prison and insistence on forgiveness over vengeance made him a potent symbol of the struggle to end his country’s system of racial domination.