File photo of former South African President Nelson Mandela with the then President Shankar Dayal Sharma and Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao in New Delhi in Jan 2005.
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa left, next to a sculpture of former President Nelson Mandela waves to supporters from the balcony at the city hall in Cape Town South Africa...
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File photo of former South African President Nelson Mandela with the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Durban.
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Britain's Prince Harry, and Meghan the Duchess of Sussex look at a Shakespeare book favored by prisoners on Robben Island with Andrew Miangeni, who was in prison with Nelson Mandel...
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama, left, delivers his speech at the 16th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. In his highest-profi...
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Britain's Prince Harry, second right, and Meghan the Duchess of Sussex attend the launch of the Nelson Mandela Centenary Exhibition, marking the 100th anniversary of anti-apartheid...
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1995: Nelson Mandela
He spent 27 years as a prisoner in Robben Island, but as post-apartheid South Africa’s first president, Nelson Mandela led a process of reconciliation. A Gandhian and a friend of...
Before Robben Island
Adoption of the Freedom Charter by the ANC meant ‘treason’ for S. Africa’s apartheid state. Nelson Mandela (third from right, seen here at the trial in Johannesburg in ...
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A billboard in India purportedly mourns the death of Nelson Mandela, marking his long and eventful life with a kind and thoughtful message – and a picture of Morgan Freeman.
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RIP Madiba Visitors stand at the base of a statue of Nelson Mandela in Pretoria, unveiled a day after the burial on December 16, celebrated as Reconciliation Day in South Africa.
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College students create a portrait of late Nelson Mandela out of Rubik's cube in Mumbai.
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Soldiers place former South African President Nelson Mandela's casket on a gun carriage outside a makeshift tent where his funeral service was held in Qunu, South Africa.
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General view of the makeshift tent where the funeral service for former South African president Nelson Mandela is taking place in Qunu, South Africa.
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The casket of Nelson Mandela is brought in a military parade on a gun carriage from the family home to the funeral tent, prior to his burial, in Qunu, South Africa.
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Nelson Mandela’s widow Graca Machel wipes her eyes during the funeral service for Nelson Mandela in Qunu, South Africa.
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The casket of Nelson Mandela is brought in a military parade on a gun carriage from the family home to the funeral tent, prior to his burial, in Qunu, South Africa.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, left, Nelson Mandela's former wife, left and Nelson Mandela’s widow Graca Machel stand over the former South African president's casket during his fun...
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Canons are fired during the funeral ceremony for former South African President Nelson Mandela.The stage is seating about 400 family members and guests, the white tent on the left ...
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Family members stand near former South African President Nelson Mandela's casket during his funeral service in Qunu, South Africa.
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The casket bearing the remains of former South African President Nelson Mandela are brought into a makeshift tent for his funeral service for in Qunu, South Africa.
Nelson Mandela International Day was launched by United Nations in recognition of Mandela’s birthday on 18 July, 2009. And he was the made the first Patron of Laureus
Remembering the former South African president Nelson Mandela on his 101st birth anniversary, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the world misses men like Mandela more than ever today.
'... who taught the world the true meaning of forgiveness and reconciliation— and steered South Africans onto the path of building a truly Rainbow Nation'
It was a world-historical moment. The only way to breach the iron curtain back in 1990, during Mandela’s release, was to go through his old network of comrades.
Nelson Mandela, the master-healer, was friendly, but not partisan. He wrapped realpolitik around a moral code of courageous honesty and reconciliation.
A radical once, a humanist thereafter. An embodiment of dignity and political wisdom, Nelson Mandela’s life is a sign of something better for our troubled times.
Football is seen as a primarily black sport in South Africa, but even white mothers, prompted by their children, have got into the spirit of the sport and the event.