Pretoria, South Africa News

In the early 1980s, Nelson Mandela's name was virtually unknown in the United States.

Former South African president Nelson Mandela waves to the crowd during a ceremony in Hull, Quebec, where he was presented with an Honourary Canadian Citizenship Monday November 19, 2001.

Vietnamese Ambassador Le Huy Hoang assumed the role as Chair of the ASEAN Committee in South Africa during a recent meeting in Pretoria.

Thousands of workers heading into the Pretoria city centre were stuck in massive traffic congestion on Monday morning - and the situation is unlikely to improve over the next few days.

Following the 2009 shooting of a Rwandan refugee in the city centre by two off-duty policemen, the Pretoria High Court has found that the minister of police is vicariously liable for the damages the man's great aunt can prove she has suffered due to his death.

So the prime minister of Canada and his wife and three former prime ministers get on a 30-year-old plane with two former governors general, four provincial or territorial premiers, the head of the Assembly of First Nations and the leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition.

An eclectic mix of world leaders including President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will eulogize Nelson Mandela before a crowd of nearly 100,000 mourners at a massive memorial service Tuesday in the World Cup soccer stadium where the anti-apartheid champion made his last public appearance.

Police say they were called to an address in response to a call about a missing boy, who they found a short time later Leigh Halfpenny crowned BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year as Welsh rugby sweeps the board at awards ceremony Halfpenny finished ahead of Gareth Bale, Aled Sion Davies, Non Stanford and Becky James, while Warren Gatland ... (more)

In this undated portrait released by The Mark Twain House & Museum, author Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens is shown.

Police and the government were bracing Monday for a massive crush of mourners at a soccer stadium who will be met with high-level security measures for the heads of state attending the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.

Police and the government were bracing Monday for a massive crush of mourners at a soccer stadium who will be met with high-level security measures for the heads of state attending the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Police and the government were bracing Monday for a massive crush of mourners at a soccer stadium who will be met with high-level security measures for the heads of state attending JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - DECEMBER 09: Well-wishers pay their respects outside the Houghton home of the former South African President ... (more)

With the death of Nelson Mandela last week, comedian Trevor Noah had this to say on Twitter: "@Trevornoah Nelson Mandela One of the funniest and most amazing human beings I've ever met.

An American Airlines plane and a US Airways plane are parked at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport on August 13. Snow, ice and freezing rain will strike states from Texas to New England through Tuesday, promising icy roads, power outages and general unpleasantness for much of the country.

DOZENS of heads of state and government leaders will attend a memorial service for Nelson Mandela tomorrow in one of the largest such gatherings for generations.

Nelson Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, who barely left her husband's bedside in the final six months of his life, has hardly been seen in the wake of his death.

A who's who of Canadian politics is on its way to South Africa with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to pay their final respects to Nelson Mandela.

There has been no one like Nelson Mandela on the world stage in my lifetime. I was a child of five years old when he went into prison and a young man of thirty-three when he got out; during all of that time, he was the central figure of South Africa's epic ordeal of apartheid - a man wrongfully imprisoned by a hateful racist regime, a man rendered ... (more)

The Molefo family came from Pretoria to Soweto, the black township where they once lived, to honor Nelson Mandela outside the home on Vilakazi Street where he lived before going to prison in 1963.

In his weekly address on Saturday, President Obama urged GOP lawmakers to extend the unemployment benefits that are set to expire this month, saying "it shouldn't be a partisan issue."