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South African anti-apartheid hero 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 leaders as a moral giant.
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Although Mandela had been frail and ailing for nearly a year, Zuma's announcement late on Thursday of the death of the former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate shook South Africa.
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Earlier, Mandela was admitted on June 8 with a recurrent lung infection. Nelson Mandela's close family members gathered to hear a sombre prayer wishing the anti-apartheid icon a "peaceful, perfect, end" as he lay in hospital in a critical condition with life seemingly slipping away.
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Cape Town Archbishop Thabo Makgoba visited Pretoria's Mediclinic Heart Hospital on Tuesday to pray with wife Graca Machel "at this hard time of watching and waiting".
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Mandela spent 27 years behind bars for his struggle under white minority rule and went on to become South Africa's first black president.
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