RIP Mandela - the whole world mourns
Update: Presidents and prime ministers, celebrities and royals joined tens of thousands of South Africans to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, in a memorial service celebrating a man seen as a global symbol of reconciliation.
In what has been billed as one of the largest gatherings of global leaders in recent history, world leaders from President Barack Obama to Cuba's Raul Castro gathered alongside street sweepers, actors and religious figures to pay tribute to the revered statesman who died last Thursday, aged 95.
Despite the heavy rain, the atmosphere inside Johannesburg 's FNB stadium was celebratory, with people dancing, blowing "vuvuzela" plastic horns and singing songs from the anti-apartheid struggle.
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South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, South Africa's president says.
Mr Mandela, 95, led South Africa's transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s, after 27 years in prison.
He had been receiving intense home-based medical care for a lung infection after three months in hospital.
In a statement on South African national TV, Mr Zuma said Mr Mandela had "departed" and was at peace.
"Our nation has lost its greatest son," Mr Zuma said.
He said Mr Mandela would receive a full state funeral, and flags would be flown at half-mast.
Galinda - in context to Clinton's comments. Or did you miss this?
Splitt, firstly why single out Americans? There are countless countries in the world interfering and meddling and fighting with other countries, and with the people living inside their own borders.
And secondly don't you think that you have an unresolved hatred for America, making your comment just a bit hypocritical?
That should read world without hate
Americans can't believe that there mIght be a world without .
U.S. Lionizes Mandela In Death … But Labeled Him a Terrorist While He Was Alive
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37044.htm
The following is a true story about him as told by Former US President Bill Clinton: "That was pretty smart of you to have your jailers come to the Inauguration and all of that, but let me ask you something… didn't you really hate them for what they did?" Nelson replied... "Oh, yeah, I hated them for a long time. I stayed alive on hate for 12 years. I broke rocks every day, and I stayed alive on hate. They took a lot away from me. They took me away from my wife, and it subsequently destroyed my marriage. They took me away from seeing my children grow up. They abused me mentally and physically. And one day, I realized they could take it all except my mind and my heart." He paused and then he continued... "Those things I would have to give to them, and I simply decided not to give them away." And so I said to Nelson... "Well, what about when you were getting out of prison? The day you got out of prison in 1990, it was Sunday morning, and I got my daughter up early in the morning, and I took her down to the kitchen, and I turned on the television, and she was just a little girl then, and I sat her up on the kitchen counter. And I said, 'Chelsea, I want you to watch this. This is one of the most important things you'll ever see in your life.'" "I watched you walk down that dirt road to freedom. Now, when you were walking down there, and you realized how long you had been in their prison, didn't you hate them then? Didn't you feel some hatred?" Nelson replied... "Yes, I did a little bit. I felt that. And frankly, I was kind of afraid, too, because I hadn't been free in so long. As I felt the anger rising up, I thought to myself, 'Nelson, They have already had you for 27 years. And if you keep hating them, they'll have you again.' And I said myself, 'I want to be free.' And so I let it go. I let it go."
He underdstood the real meaning of life .... RIP ...
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