Nelson Mandela died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection,plunging his nation and the world into mourning for a man hailed by global leader as a moral giant
Nelson Mandela, who became one of the world's most beloved statesmen and a colossus of the 20th century when he emerged from 27 years in prison to negotiate an end to white minority rule in South Africa, has died. He was 95.