Children wearing school uniforms watch the laying of wreaths, at the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto, South Africa for commemoration of the 40th anniversary of uprisings.
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An electronic billboard displays Nelson Mandela's photo in New York's Times Square. South Africa celebrated Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday, a milestone capped by news that the form...
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Well-wishers carry a large banner of Nelson Mandela as they march up and down outside the gates of the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President is being treat...
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A child passes a container bearing a portrait of former president Nelson Mandela set up to collect books for underprivileged children, at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront in Cape...
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Grandson Ndaba Mandela embraces a student from East Bank High during the Mandela Day activities in Alexandra township in South Africa.South Africa celebrated Nelson Mandela's 95th ...
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A woman walks by a mural of former South African President Nelson Mandela in the Soweto township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Graca Machel, wife of former president Nelson Mandela, attends a fundraising drive for a children's hospital that will be named after the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader in Johan...
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Mandla Mandela grandson of former president Nelson Mandela, and his mother Nolusapho Mandela at a news conference in Mvezo, South Africa.
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U.S. President Back Obama peers out from Section B, prison cell No. 5, on Robben Island, South Africa where Former South African president Nelson Mandela's spent 18-years of his 27...
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Supporters gather outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa.
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A stained glass panel inside the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Soweto, South Africa depicts former president Nelson Mandela durng a church service.
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In this photo dated, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 shows a tattoo artist Charles Hearne create a tattoo portrait of former South African President Nelson Mandela on the upper leg of custo...
In retirement, Margaret Court, now a church pastor, has often attracted controversy over her views on race and homosexuality. The Australian once praised South Africa's apartheid system, said "tennis is full of lesbians" and described transgender children as "the work of the devil"
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
The former CAG cited the example of South Africa, which was banned for 21 years from 1970 till 1991 due to the apartheid when black South Africans were racially discriminated against.