On December 10, 2013, with great interest, I read a day earlier delivered speech that President Barack Obama gave to more than 90 world leaders and tens of thousands of South Africans who gathered to pay their last respects to Nelson Mandela at a memorial service held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Obama spoke of Mandela as being a “giant of history.” He said that Mandela “… moved a nation towards justice and in the process moved billions around the world.”
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On December 6, 2013, the day after Nelson Mandela’s death at 95 years of age, Tracy Conner, Staff Writer for NBC News.com website wrote an article for WORLD NEWS entitled ‘He is now at peace’: Nelson Mandela dead at 95.
Conner mentioned “Nelson Mandela, the revered South African anti-apartheid icon who spent 27 years in prison, led his country to democracy and became its first black president, died Thursday at home.”
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