unhistorical:South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, S
unhistorical:South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, South Africa’s president says.Mandela fought against apartheid for decades, spent twenty-seven years in prison for his work, and was eventually elected President of South Africa in 1994. In 1993 he and F.W. de Klerk received the Nobel Peace Prize “for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa”. -- source link