The statue resembles Mandela’s pose, his right arm extended into a fist above his head, upon his release from 27 years of incarceration during the fight against South African apartheid.

A South African university removed the statue of a British colonialist, responding to student protests that have described it as a symbol of white privilege.

The current wave of the U.S. protests bringing down Confederate monuments has echoes in African social movements toppling statues of colonial rulers. Across the U.S., protesters have been taking ...

A nine-metre (30-foot) high bronze statue of South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela will be erected at a government complex in the capital Pretoria, an official said Thursday.

A South African university is celebrating the removal of a British colonialist’s statue after weeks of protests. University of Cape Town students took to social media to demand Cecil Rhodes ...