Here’s the latest widely reported context about Nelson Mandela (Tata Madiba) as of now.
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Nelson Mandela, the revered anti-apartheid hero, spent a third night in hospital after South Africa prayed for him on Sunday amid calls for his family and nation to "let him go".
www.ndtv.com"Rwanda is our nightmare, South Africa is our dream." So wrote the Nobel Prize-winning African novelist Wole Soyinka in 1994. It was just a month after two events which seemed to span the polarities of despair and hope so many saw in the continent of Africa in the post-independence era. In Rwanda a million people had died in a ghastly genocide. But South Africa had made an astonishingly peaceful transition from oppressive white rule to a black-majority government elected in the country's first...
www.independent.co.ukComplete coverage of the life of Nelson Mandela and his fight to end apartheid.
www.cbsnews.comI, along with millions, perhaps even billions, lit a candle on the 5th of December 2013
www.ru.ac.za'It’s madness to celebrate Mandela and omit Winnie'
madiba.mg.co.zaNelson Mandela, the former South African president and anti-apartheid hero, dies
www.telegraph.co.ukNelson Mandela was a Black nationalist and the first Black president of South Africa (1994–99). A revered anti-apartheid activist, he fought for equality and reconciliation, leaving an enduring legacy of peace and social justice.
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