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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hemalsilva" data-source="post: 15996026" data-attributes="member: 7335">The world mourns Mandela 34 PHOTOS South African leader and anit-aparthied hero Nelson Mandela died December 5 at the age of 95. Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years for fighting against apartheid and upon his release in 1990, continued to strive for peace and reconciliation as president of ANC and South African president in 1994. The country and the world mourns his death and celebrates his life. - <img src="http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mandela_2013/bp1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Flowers left by mourners surround a portrait of Nelson Mandela in the Sandton district of Johannesburg on Dec. 6. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died on Dec. 5 aged 95. Mandela, who was elected South Africa's first black president after spending nearly three decades in prison, had been receiving treatment for a lung infection at his Johannesburg home since September, after three months in hospital in a critical state. <img src="http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mandela_2013/bp2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> South African children hold placards showing the face of Nelson Mandela as they celebrate his life, in the street outside his old house in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, on Dec. 6. Flags were lowered to half-staff and people in black townships, in upscale mostly white suburbs and in South Africa's vast rural grasslands commemorated Nelson Mandela with song, tears and prayers while pledging to adhere to the values of unity and democracy that he embodied. <img src="http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mandela_2013/bp3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> A girl holds a South African national flag as people mourn the death of former President Nelson Mandela outside Cape Town City Hall, where Mandela made his first speech after his release from his 27-year incarceration, on Dec. 6. <img src="http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mandela_2013/bp4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> ANC supporters pray in front of the courthouse of Johannesburg, on Dec. 28, 1956, to support 152 anti-apartheid militants, including Nelson Mandela, during their trial. <img src="http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mandela_2013/bp5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> People comfort each other outside the residence of former South African President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Dec. 6.</blockquote>

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