Mandela in a similary meditative mood as Gandhi

Anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela appears to be in a similary meditative mood as Mahatma Gandhi depicted in painting at top on October 15, 1990 in New-Delhi where Mandela is on an official state visit. (FILM) AFP PHOTO/P. MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)

South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela has passed away at his home in Johannesburg at 95.

The anti-apartheid icon was elected President in 1994 after South Africa’s first multi-racial election. On February 11, 1990, then South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk lifted the 30-year-old ban on the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, and Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Vester prison, near Cape Town, after spending 27 years behind bars as a political prisoner for his resistance to the largely white, ethnic-Afrikaner National Party’s apartheid policies.

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  1. Rana Singh

    December 6, 2013

    Believer of Non Violence philosophy after Mahatma Gandhi  … Great Leader .. RIP

  2. Ken Longrowe

    December 6, 2013

    This is exactly How TEXAS will get its independence if America is smart. Otherwise they will suffer from thier arragence.

  3. Tarek Abuaita

    December 7, 2013

    It takes the right person,at the right time and the right place to. Deliver. The word of Wisdom,We all has it but We don't used enough.

  4. John Compton

    December 8, 2013

    Why attach Gandi with Mandela,Mandela loved his people.reason I asked you say???
    "Kaffirs(Blacks) are as rule uncivilized-the convicts even more so.They are troublesome,very dirty an live almost like animals.,Mohandas Gandhi Mar. 7,1908. Its in his books that why I asked..

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