Nelson Mandela - wikimedia commons[/caption]Editor----Following a series of illnesses and hospitalizations in recent months, Nelson Mandela died today at the age of 95. He will surely be mourned in South Africa, but his reputation as a world leader and a man of humanitarian principles has been admired by people across the world
Mandela was a young activist in South Africa, working towards the end of apartheid, the forced segregation of black Africans into ghetto-type communities, requiring identity cards to work or to travel. He was accused of trying to overthrow the government by violence and was imprisoned for 27 years.
Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990 and shortly after became South Africa's leader, ushering in the hopes that his declaration of amnesty for those who had perpetrated and continued the system of apartheid would allow the country to heal.
He will be missed by his countrymen and the people who admired him across the world.
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