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Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid icon and father of modern South Africa, dies
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| 12-05-2013
| By Faith Karimi
Posted on 12/05/2013 2:11:15 PM PST by Red Badger
Nelson Mandela, the revered statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of decades of apartheid, has died, South African President Jacob Zuma announced late Thursday.
Mandela was 95.
"He is now resting. He is now at peace," Zuma said. "Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father."
"What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human," the president said in his late-night address. "We saw in him what we seek in ourselves."
Mandela will have a state funeral. Zuma ordered all flags in the nation to be flown at half-staff from Friday through that funeral.
Mandela, a former president, battled health issues in recent months, including a recurring lung infection that led to numerous hospitalizations.
With advancing age and bouts of illness, Mandela retreated to a quiet life at his boyhood home in the nation's Eastern Cape Province, where he said he was most at peace.
Despite rare public appearances, he held a special place in the consciousness of the nation and the world.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
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Read the comments. They are going to be very interesting. The mods at CNN.com will be very busy for awhile...............
To: Red Badger
Has he been staked? Is he completely dead?
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:12:15 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: Red Badger
Yet again. Hes got nothing on Lazarus.
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:12:36 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: Red Badger
Stand by to be deleted.....
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:13:41 PM PST
by
clintonh8r
(Don't twerk me, Bro!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:14:04 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Red Badger
His family will probably miss him.
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:14:18 PM PST
by
svcw
(Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:14:45 PM PST
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: tumblindice
Most dearly and sincerely dead.............
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:14:59 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Red Badger
Lucky for him he didn't have Obamacare or he would have been dead long before today.
To: Red Badger
Eternally with Momar Gadaffi and Yasir Arafathead I suppose.
May Fidel Castro join them all soon.
To: max americana
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:15:55 PM PST
by
Democrat_media
(Obama ordered IRS to rig 2012 election and must resign)
To: fatnotlazy
Can we get Fidel Castro on Obamacare?
To: Red Badger
So then, since Mandela had the whites thrown out of SA, how have things gone for the blacks?
Just askin’
To: a fool in paradise
Two down, one to go.........................
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:18:02 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: tumblindice
Has he been staked?
I thought "necklacing" was what they did in Mandela's SA?
To: a fool in paradise
Been saying I wouldn’t wish that on anybody, but then again.....
To: a fool in paradise
I don’t think even old Fidel would want that!..................
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:18:38 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: SkyDancer
Had the potential to do great things but got dragged down by the black vitriol and his wife winnie was a real piece of work.
To: Red Badger
Beelzebub “I never met a terrorist I didn’t like” Øbozo must be inconsolable.
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:19:07 PM PST
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Red Badger
How do we know he won’t rise up and try to eat the guts of the living?
To be safe someone should pith him or put a round in his ear.
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:19:11 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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