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On 5 December 2013, Nelson Mandela, the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state, died at the age of 95 after a prolonged respiratory infection. [1] .
Dec 5, 2018 · On December 5, 2013, Nelson Mandela, the former activist who overcame a nearly three-decade prison stint to become president of South Africa, passes away after years of struggling with health...
Dec 6, 2013 · South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95. Mr Mandela led South Africa's transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s, after 27...
Dec 6, 2013 · Nelson Mandela, the revered statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of decades of apartheid, has died.
Mandela publicised AIDS as the cause of his son Makgatho's death in January 2005, to defy the stigma about discussing the disease. Publicly, Mandela became more vocal in criticising Western powers. He strongly opposed the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo and called it an attempt by the world's powerful nations to police the entire world.
Dec 6, 2013 · Mr Mandela died shortly before 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on Thursday. He won admiration around the world when he preached reconciliation after being freed from almost three decades of...
Dec 5, 2013 · Nelson Mandela, Who Led South Africa’s Liberation, Dies at 95. Mr. Mandela, who led the emancipation of South Africa from white minority rule and served as his country’s first black...
Dec 5, 2013 · Nelson Mandela, who was born in a country that viewed him as a second-class citizen, died Thursday as one of the most respected statesmen in the world. He was 95. President Jacob Zuma announced...
Dec 5, 2013 · Nelson Mandela, former South African president and an icon of the anti-apartheid movement, has died at age 92. Mandela spent 27 years in prison and became a potent symbol of apartheid's injustices ...
Dec 5, 2013 · December 5, 2013 at 5:11 p.m. EST. Nelson Mandela, the former political prisoner who became the first president of a post-apartheid South Africa and whose heroic life and towering moral stature...
