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JOHANNESBURG: South African anti-apartheid heroNelson Mandela died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection, plunging his nation and the world into mourning for a man hailed by global leaders as a moral giant.
Although Mandela had been frail and ailing for nearly a year, Zuma's announcement late on Thursday of the death of the former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate shook South Africa.
Tributes began flooding in almost immediately for a man who was an iconic global symbol of struggle against injustice and of racial reconciliation.
US President Barack Obama said the world had lost "one of the most influential, courageous and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this earth".
PM Manmohan Singh said, "A giant among men has passed away. This is as much India's loss as South Africa's. He was a true Gandhian. His life and work will remain a source of eternal inspiration for generations to come. I join all those who are praying for his soul."
British Prime Minister David Cameron called Mandela "a hero of our time" and said "a great light has gone out in the world".
Ordinary South Africans were in shock. "It feels like it's my father who has died. He was such a good man, who had good values the nation could look up to. He was a role model unlike our leaders of today," said Annah Khokhozela, 37, a nanny, speaking in Johannesburg
A somber Zuma made a national broadcast to announce the death of South Africa's first black president, who emerged from 27 years in apartheid prisons to help guide Africa's biggest economythrough bloodshed and turmoil to democracy.
"Fellow South Africans, our beloved Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding president of our democratic nation, has departed," Zuma said in the nationally televised address.
"Our people have lost a father. Although we knew this day was going to come, nothing can diminish our sense of a profound and enduring loss. His tireless struggle for freedom earned him the respect of the world. His humility, passion and humanity, earned him their love," he added.
"Giant for justice"
Mandela would receive a full state funeral, Zuma said, ordering flags to be flown at half mast.
The UN Security Council was in session when the ambassadors received the news of Mandela's death. They stopped their meeting and stood for a minute's silence.
"Nelson Mandela was a giant for justice and a down-to-earth human inspiration," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters. "Nelson Mandela showed what is possible for our world and within each one of us if we believe, dream and work together for justice and humanity."
Obama, the first black American president, described Mandela as an inspiration: "Like so many around the globe, I cannot fully imagine my own life without the example that Nelson Mandela set, and so long as I live I will do what I can to learn from him," he said in a televised address at the White House shortly after the announcement of Mandela's death.
"A free South Africa at peace with itself - that's an example to the world, and that's Madiba's legacy to the nation he loved.
Mandela rose from rural obscurity to challenge the might of white minority apartheid government - a struggle that gave the 20th century one of its most respected and loved figures.
He was among the first to advocate armed resistance to apartheid in 1960, but was quick to preach reconciliation and forgiveness when the country's white minority began easing its grip on power 30 years later.
He was elected president in landmark all-race elections in 1994 and retired in 1999.
World's most famous political prisoner
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party said the country and the world had lost "a colossus".
"His life gives us the courage to push forward for development and progress towards ending hunger and poverty," it said in a statement.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, an honor he shared with FW de Klerk, the white Afrikaner leader who released from jail arguably the world's most famous political prisoner.
As president, Mandela faced the monumental task of forging a new nation from the deep racial injustices left over from the apartheid era, making reconciliation the theme of his time in office.
The hallmark of Mandela's mission was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which probed apartheid crimes on both sides of the struggle and tried to heal the country's wounds. It also provided a model for other countries torn by civil strife.
In 1999, Mandela handed over power to younger leaders better equipped to manage a modern economy - a rare voluntary departure from power cited as an example to African leaders.
In retirement, he shifted his energies to battling South Africa's AIDS crisis, a struggle that became personal when he lost his only surviving son to the disease in 2005.
Mandela's last major appearance on the global stage came in 2010 when he attended the championship match of the soccer World Cup, where he received a thunderous ovation from the 90,000 at the stadium in Soweto, the neighborhood in which he cut his teeth as a resistance leader.
Charged with capital offences in the infamous 1963 Rivonia Trial, his statement from the dock was his political testimony.
"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination."
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5-day state mourning in India as a mark of respect to Nelson Mandela
NEW DELHI/JOHANNESBURG: The government on Friday announced a five-day state mourning as a mark of respect to Nelson Mandela.
A decision to this effect was taken at a special meeting of the Union Cabinet, which condoled the death of the anti-apartheid icon.
"Mandela was the tallest leader of not only his generation but possibly this entire paradigm. The role that he personally played in dismantling the apartheid is something exemplary," information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari said after the meeting.
A prisoner of conscience for over 20 years, the South African leader played an extremely vital role in giving a moral leadership to the world, he said.
"The entire nation is one with the South African people in condoling his sad demise.
"The Cabinet met today and passed a resolution condoling the death of Dr Nelson Mandela and it has been decided that there would be five days' state mourning...," he said.
A global symbol of resistance who liberated South Africa from much-despised apartheid regime and served as its first black president, Nelson Mandela died at his home in Johannesburg on Thursday after battling a protracted illness.
"Our beloved Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding President of our democratic nation, has departed," South Afrcian President Jacob Zuma said in a televised address to the nation, announcing the demise of the 95-year-old Nobel laureate.
Mandela, also a recipient of India's highest civilian award 'Bharat Ratna' in 1990, was receiving medical care from a team of doctors since September at his home in the suburb of Houghton here after spending three months in a Pretoria hospital for a recurrent lung ailment.
"Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father," he said.
"What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves."
Zuma announced a state funeral for the elder statesman. Details of the funeral have not been announced yet, but all flags will fly at half-mast until the funeral.
He said Mandela's tireless struggle for freedom earned him the respect of the world: "His humility, his compassion, and his humanity earned him their love."
Hundreds of South Africans all over the country huddled in groups from the early hours of this morning to mourn the death of Mandela, who led the liberation of South Africa from white minority rule and served as its first black president.
Mandela, a lawyer and ex-boxer, spent 27 years in prison, most of them on Robben Island, after being convicted in the Rivonia trial with several others 50 years ago.
He stepped down in 1999 after serving one term as President following the first democratic elections in 1994.
As president, Mandela worked for uniting the polarised nation dominated by tribal politics. He devoted his energy to moderating the bitterness of his black electorate and to reassuring whites with fears of vengeance.
Mandela had been in and out of hospital for the past two years with a range of medical problems. His public appearances became rare but despite that he held a special place in the consciousness of the nation and the world.
US President Barack Obama mourned Mandela's death, saying "He no longer belongs to us -- he belongs to the ages."
"We've lost one of the most influential, courageous and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this Earth," Obama said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council also mourned the death of Mandela, saying the South African leader was a "giant for justice".
"Nelson Mandela was a singular figure on the global stage - a man of quiet dignity and towering achievement, a giant for justice and a down-to-earth human inspiration. I am profoundly saddened by his passing," Ban said in his condolence message.
"On behalf of the United Nations, I extend my deepest condolences to the people of South Africa and especially to Nelson Mandela's family and loved ones," he said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said, "One of the brightest lights of our world has gone out. Nelson Mandela was not just a hero of our time, but a hero of all time, the first president of a free South Africa, a man who suffered so much for freedom and justice."
The flag above Downing Street is flying at half-mast as a mark of respect, the BBC said.
China praised the former South African president as "an old friend of the Chinese people."
The South African government has set up a special tribute website at "Nelson Mandela"Nelson Mandela
"Our thoughts are with the South African people who today mourn the loss of the one person who, more than any other, came to embody their sense of a common nationhood," Zuma said.
"Our thoughts are with the millions of people across the world who embraced Madiba as their own, and who saw his cause as their cause.
"Let us reaffirm his vision of a society in which none is exploited, oppressed or dispossessed by another. Let us commit ourselves to strive together ? sparing neither strength nor courage ? to build a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa," Zuma added.
In his tribute to Mandela, Nobel laureate and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said the former president had transcended race and class in his personal actions.
He said people cared about Mandela and loved him because of his courage, convictions and his caring ways for others.
"Mandela embodied and reflected our collective greatness. He embodied our hopes and our dreams. He symbolised our enormous potential, potential that has not always been fulfilled," Tutu said in a statement.
5-day state mourning in India as a mark of respect to Nelson Mandela - The Times of India
NEW DELHI/JOHANNESBURG: The government on Friday announced a five-day state mourning as a mark of respect to Nelson Mandela.
A decision to this effect was taken at a special meeting of the Union Cabinet, which condoled the death of the anti-apartheid icon.
"Mandela was the tallest leader of not only his generation but possibly this entire paradigm. The role that he personally played in dismantling the apartheid is something exemplary," information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari said after the meeting.
A prisoner of conscience for over 20 years, the South African leader played an extremely vital role in giving a moral leadership to the world, he said.
"The entire nation is one with the South African people in condoling his sad demise.
"The Cabinet met today and passed a resolution condoling the death of Dr Nelson Mandela and it has been decided that there would be five days' state mourning...," he said.
A global symbol of resistance who liberated South Africa from much-despised apartheid regime and served as its first black president, Nelson Mandela died at his home in Johannesburg on Thursday after battling a protracted illness.
"Our beloved Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding President of our democratic nation, has departed," South Afrcian President Jacob Zuma said in a televised address to the nation, announcing the demise of the 95-year-old Nobel laureate.
Mandela, also a recipient of India's highest civilian award 'Bharat Ratna' in 1990, was receiving medical care from a team of doctors since September at his home in the suburb of Houghton here after spending three months in a Pretoria hospital for a recurrent lung ailment.
"Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father," he said.
"What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves."
Zuma announced a state funeral for the elder statesman. Details of the funeral have not been announced yet, but all flags will fly at half-mast until the funeral.
He said Mandela's tireless struggle for freedom earned him the respect of the world: "His humility, his compassion, and his humanity earned him their love."
Hundreds of South Africans all over the country huddled in groups from the early hours of this morning to mourn the death of Mandela, who led the liberation of South Africa from white minority rule and served as its first black president.
Mandela, a lawyer and ex-boxer, spent 27 years in prison, most of them on Robben Island, after being convicted in the Rivonia trial with several others 50 years ago.
He stepped down in 1999 after serving one term as President following the first democratic elections in 1994.
As president, Mandela worked for uniting the polarised nation dominated by tribal politics. He devoted his energy to moderating the bitterness of his black electorate and to reassuring whites with fears of vengeance.
Mandela had been in and out of hospital for the past two years with a range of medical problems. His public appearances became rare but despite that he held a special place in the consciousness of the nation and the world.
US President Barack Obama mourned Mandela's death, saying "He no longer belongs to us -- he belongs to the ages."
"We've lost one of the most influential, courageous and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this Earth," Obama said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council also mourned the death of Mandela, saying the South African leader was a "giant for justice".
"Nelson Mandela was a singular figure on the global stage - a man of quiet dignity and towering achievement, a giant for justice and a down-to-earth human inspiration. I am profoundly saddened by his passing," Ban said in his condolence message.
"On behalf of the United Nations, I extend my deepest condolences to the people of South Africa and especially to Nelson Mandela's family and loved ones," he said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said, "One of the brightest lights of our world has gone out. Nelson Mandela was not just a hero of our time, but a hero of all time, the first president of a free South Africa, a man who suffered so much for freedom and justice."
The flag above Downing Street is flying at half-mast as a mark of respect, the BBC said.
China praised the former South African president as "an old friend of the Chinese people."
The South African government has set up a special tribute website at "Nelson Mandela"Nelson Mandela
"Our thoughts are with the South African people who today mourn the loss of the one person who, more than any other, came to embody their sense of a common nationhood," Zuma said.
"Our thoughts are with the millions of people across the world who embraced Madiba as their own, and who saw his cause as their cause.
"Let us reaffirm his vision of a society in which none is exploited, oppressed or dispossessed by another. Let us commit ourselves to strive together ? sparing neither strength nor courage ? to build a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa," Zuma added.
In his tribute to Mandela, Nobel laureate and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said the former president had transcended race and class in his personal actions.
He said people cared about Mandela and loved him because of his courage, convictions and his caring ways for others.
"Mandela embodied and reflected our collective greatness. He embodied our hopes and our dreams. He symbolised our enormous potential, potential that has not always been fulfilled," Tutu said in a statement.
5-day state mourning in India as a mark of respect to Nelson Mandela - The Times of India
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