Photos: South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela dead at 95
December 5, 2013
ANC president Nelson Mandela is surrounded by young supporters after addressing residents at Phola Park, a squatter settlement east of Johannesburg, 31 May 1992. In his speech, he attacked President Frederik W. de Klerk of being responsible for the violence that killed scores of people in black townships. (Photo credit should read WALTER DHLADHLA/AFP/Getty Images)
Nelson Mandela attends a photocall ahead of tonight's "46664 Arctic" concert, at the Rica Hotel on June 11, 2005 in Tromso, Norway. The fourth concert aims to raise awareness of and funds for the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, as well as funds for South Africa with proceeds going to the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Produced by Robbie Williams, it follows 3 previous concerts held in Cape Town, George and Madrid, and Mandela is expected to make a personal plea to leaders of the G8 summit in his address. (Photo by Getty Images)
A crowd of estimated 40.000 African National Congress (ANC) supporters listen to the address of ANC President Nelson Mandela during a mass rally in Mmabatho 15 March 1994 prior to the 27 April general election. South Africans will vote 27 April 1994 in the country's first democratic and multiracial general elections. Mmabatho Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Mafikeng, South Africa. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 59,000 people and was designed and built in 1981 by a Russian construction firm. The South African general election of 1994 was an election held in South Africa to mark the end of apartheid, therefore also the first held with universal adult suffrage. AFP PHOTO WALTER DHLADHLA (Photo credit should read WALTER DHLADHLA/AFP/Getty Images)
South African anti-apartheid leader and member of the African National Congress (ANC) Nelson Mandela shown in a file photo dated 1957 posing with his wife Winnie during their wedding. (Photo credit should read OFF/AFP/Getty Images)
Baton-wielding police break up the crowd outside the Drill Hall, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Dec. 31, 1956, as the 'Treason Trials' opened. Nelson Mandela was among the people who were on trial. (AP Photo)
Crowds cheer as a police van brings prisoners to the Drill Hall, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Dec. 31, 1956, for the start of the 'Treason Trial'. One man has climbed onto the step of the van top shout encouragement to the inmates. Nelson Mandela was among the people arrested and standing trial. (AP Photo)
ANC supporters give the thumb up as a prison van with anti-apartheid militants go to Johannesburg's courthouse, 28 December 1956. 152 anti-apartheid militants, in which Nelson Mandela, are on trial in Johannesburg. (Photo credit should read OFF/AFP/Getty Images)
Winnie Mandela (C), leaves the Palace of Justice in Pretoria 16 June 1964 with her fist clenched, after the verdict of the Rivonia Trial was given, sentencing eight men, including her husband anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela, to life imprisonment. The men were charged with conspiracy, sabotage and treason. (Photo credit should read OFF/AFP/Getty Images)
Police join hands to hold back demonstrators outside court in Pretoria, South Africa, June 12, 1964 after eight of the accused in the Rivonia Sabotage trial, including Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, were sentenced to life imprisonment. (AP Photo)
Members of nea-fascist All White Brotherhood protest against Frederik de Klerk's reforms and imminent release from jail of anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela during a rally in Pretoria, 10 February 1990. (Photo credit should read TREVOR SAMSON/AFP/GettyImages)
On the day that SA Pres FW de Klerk announced the release of Nelson Mandela, right wing extremists called for his death at a rally in Church Square, Pretoria, A crowd of about 2,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Pretoria calling for the overthrow of the present Nationalists Government on Saturday, Feb. 9, 1990 in South Africa. (AP Photo/John Parkin)
A jubilant Sowetan holds up 11 February 1990 in Soweto a newspaper announcing the release of anti-apartheid leader and member of the African National Congress (ANC) Nelson Mandela, at a mass ANC rally. South African President de Klerk lifted 02 February the 30-year-old ban on the ANC and the South African Communikst Party, and 11 February, Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Vester prison, near Cape Town, after 26 year since he was sentenced to life imprisonment. (Photo credit should read TREVOR SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images)
Anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela rides in car through cheering fans as exiting from Victor Verster prison upon his release, 11 February 1990. (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/GettyImages)
People dance in central Johannesburg street on February 23, 1990 as hundreds of Democratic Party supporters marched for Democracy to city hall to hear speeches by party leaders who had met earlier with African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela. (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images)
ANC leader Nelson Mandela waves too thousands of his supporters on Sunday, February 11, 1990 in Cape Town during his address in freedom after spending 27 years in jail. (AP Photo)
Freed anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela (L) and his wife Winnie stroll, 12 February 1990, in the garden of Archbishop Desmond Tutu's residence in Cape Town, one day after the release from jail of Nelson Mandela. (Photo credit should read WALTER DHLADHLA/AFP/Getty Images)
Jubilant inhabitants of Soweto find room where they can in and on a bus to reach Orlando stadium in Soweto, 12 February 1990, to attend a mass African National Congress (ANC) rally to be addressed by freed anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela. It's the first rally Nelson Mandela is holding since his release from jail, 11 February 1990. The rally was originaly called for to celebrate the unbanning of the ANC but turned out to be a celebration for the release from jail of Nelson Mandela. (Photo credit should read TREVOR SAMSON/AFP/GettyImages)
Thousands of Soweto residents come from all different directions to reach Orlando stadium in Soweto, 12 February 1990, to attend a mass African National Congress (ANC) rally to be addressed by freed anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela. The rally was originaly called for to celebrate the unbanning of the ANC but turned out to be a celebration for the release from jail of Nelson Mandela. (Photo credit should read TREVOR SAMSON/AFP/GettyImages)
A balloon bearing a welcome sign for Nelson Mandela airborne over Soweto's Soccer City stadium, where the recently released ANC leader addressed the crowd of 120,000 packed into the venue, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1990. Mandela was released from prison after serving over 27 years. (AP Photo/Sean Woods)
Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela give back power salutes as they enter Soweto's Soccer City stadium, South Africa Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1990. 120,000 thousand people packed the venue to hear his speech. (AP Photo/Udo Weitz)
Jubilant inhabitants of Soweto attend a mass african National Congress (ANC) rally to be addressed by freed anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela at Orlando stadium in Soweto, 12 February 1990. It's the first rally Nelson Mandela is holding since his release from jail, 11 February 1990. The rally was originaly called for to celebrate the unbanning of the ANC but turned out to be a celebration for the release from jail of Nelson Mandela. (Photo credit should read PHILIP LITTLETON/AFP/GettyImages)
Young boys try to see ANC President Nelson Mandela at Orlando soccer stadium 12 February 1990 whilst thousands of Sowetans wait for him. Mandela arrived in Johannesburg this evening but has not been to Soweto yet. (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images)
As a supporter waves the African National Congress flag at the statue of Britainís former King Edward, thousands throng Parade Square, on Sunday, Feb. 11, 1990 in Cape Town, South Africa, awaiting the arrival of A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela, released after his 27 years of detention. (AP Photo/Adil Bradlow)
Two unidentified South African ultra right wingers held up a black doll head with blood stained shirt under during a demonstration of some 10,000 conservatives and ultra right wingers on Thursday, Feb. 15, 1990 in Pretoria. Main subject of the protest was the release of ANC leader Nelson Mandela. (AP Photo/Udo Weitz)
An unidentified black man lies in a window on Sunday, Feb. 11, 1990 in Cape Town after crowds and police clashed in downtown Cape Town ANC supporters ran through the streets and broke shop windows. The incidents occurred while thousands of people gathered on the Grand Parade waited for released ANC leader Nelson Mandela to address them. (AP Photo)
South Africa's President Frederik Willem de Klerk (L) and anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela addresses the media during a joint press briefing, after historic "talks about talks" between the South African government and the ANC in Cape Town. (Photo credit should read WALTER DHLADHLA/AFP/Getty Images)
Anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela hugs, October 1990, a young Sowetan girl as he visits the black township near Johannesburg. (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images)
Released ANC leader Nelson Mandela is wired for a television interview with CBS anchorman Dan Rather, right, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 1990 in the garden of his home in Soweto. Mandela spent most of his fourth day of freedom giving interview to the press. In the CBS interview Mandela spoke mainly about his experiences in jail. (AP Photo/John Parkin)
Nelson Mandela chats with members of the news media aboard his chartered fight from Washington D.C. to Atlanta Wednesday, June 27, 1990. Referring to his arduous travel schedule Mandela said, "I feel as well as I should for my age. And of course the warm reception we have received has given us a feeling of well being." (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
Nelson Mandela, accompanied by his wife, Winnie, far left, is greeted by Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, at Kennedy Airport, in New York on June 20, 1990. At center is New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins, who also welcomes Mandela at the outset of a three-day visit to the city. (AP Photo/Chester Higgins Jr.)
In this June 25, 1990 file photo, President George H W Bush greets African National Congress Deputy President Nelson Mandela at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, file)
Nelson Mandela deputy President of the African National Congress is applauded as he prepares to address the Special Committee against Apartheid in the United Nations General Assembly Friday, June 22, 1990 in New York. Mandela called South Africa's policy of apartheid a "crime against humanity." (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
Nelson Mandela, deputy president of the African National Congress, wipes his brow in the hot, humid gymnasium of the Madison Park High School in the Roxbury section of Boston Saturday, June 23, 1990. An exhuberant crowd packed the gymnasium for Mandela's appearance. (AP Photo/Jim Gerberich)
South African leader of the ANC Nelson Mandela raises his fist after addressing a crowd of about 15,000 people from the balcony of the city theater Saturday, June 16, 1990 in Amsterdam. Mandela is on a one-day visit in the Netherlands. On the left seen from the back his wife Winnie. (AP Photo/Rob Croese)
In this July 27, 1991 file photo, Cuban President Fidel Castro, right, and African leader Nelson Mandela gesture during the celebration of the "Day of the Revolution" in Matanzas. (AP Photo, file)
Anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela appears to be in a similary meditative mood as Mahatma Gandhi depicted in painting at top on October 15, 1990 in New-Delhi where Mandela is on an official state visit. (FILM) AFP PHOTO/P. MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read P. MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)
Nelson Mandela, President of South African African National Congress (C) and South African President Frederik de Klerk (R) display 09 December 1993 in Oslo their Nobel Prizes after being awarded jointly for their work to end apartheid peacefully.. De Klerk shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Mandela for their efforts in securing a peaceful transition from apartheid rule. De Klerk resigned as leader of South African National Party in 1997, having served as Mandela's second deputy President until 1996. AFP PHOTO GERARD JULIEN (Photo credit should read GERARD JULIEN/AFP/Getty Images)
Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress, adjusts his party's flags before the start of his press conference on Tuesday, May 4, 1993 in London hotel. Mandela, in Britain as the guest of the British government, said the greatest threat to peace in South Africa is from white rightwing extremists. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin)
Campaign flags from the African National Congress flutter from clenched fists out the window of a campaign train which ANC President Nelson Mandela was riding, on his way to deliver the ANC's election manifesto to a group of supporters in Soweto, Jan. 29, 1994. Mandela rode the train from the center of Johannesburg to Soweto. (AP Photo/David Brauchli)
An African National Congress marshal restrains jubilant ANC supporters as President Nelson Mandela walks past nearby, before a campaign speech at Khuma sports ground just outside Stillfontein, Jan. 30, 1994 in Khuma. Mandela is on a two-day tour of the western Transvaal campaigning for the April 27 all race general elections. (AP Photo/David Brauchli)
President of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela reaches out to the crowd greeting him on Monday, Jan. 31, 1994 in Ikageng Stadium, a township just outside the western Transvaal city Potchefstroom. Mandela has been enthusiastically welcomed by large crowds throughout western Transvaal on his two-day campaign swing for the April 27 all-race general elections. (AP Photo/David Brauchli)
South African majorettes rest 25 March 1994 during an African National Congress (ANC) election rally at Kollekoberg stadium in Graaf Reinet, prior to a scheduled appearence by Nelson Mandela. (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images)
African National Congress President Nelson Mandela, left, and South African President F.W. de Klerk, shake hands prior to a television debate in Johannesburg, on Thursday, April 14, 1994, which was televised internationally. (AP Photo/John Parkin/Pool)
A picture taken 16 April 1994 shows African National Congress supporters waiting for Nelson Mandela on a billboard in a township just outside Durban before for a pre-election rally in Natal/KwaZulu province. South Africa held its first non-racial elections in 1994, ending more than three centuries of white domination and 46 years of apartheid rule. (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images)
This April 27, 1994 aerial file photo shows long lines of people queuing outside the polling station in the black township of Soweto, in the southwest suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. Against all odds, the party of Nelson Mandela which has transformed a nation where just 20 years ago black South Africans could not vote, and beaches and restaurants were reserved for whites only, is celebrating its 100th anniversary in Bloemfontein Sunday Jan 8 2012.The majority of South Africa's 22 million voters were voting in the nation's first all-race elections. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)
South African Police provide security as voters line up to cast their ballot in Ventersdorp, South Africa, Wednesday, April 27, 1994, the heart of the ultra right wing territory. voters from all over the country are casting their ballot in the first ever all-race elections which expected to result in the naming of Nelson Mandela as the first black President. (AP Photo/Michael Yassukovich)
African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela smiles broadly 27 April 1994 in Oshlange, black township near Durban, as he casts his historic vote during South Africa's first democratic and all-race general elections. (Photo credit should read WALTER DHLADHLA/AFP/Getty Images)
Supporters of the African National Congress celebrate in the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, May 2, 1994, following the victory celebration by Party Leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela and the ANC appear set to take power following last week's historic all-race elections. (AP Photo/Michael Yassukovich)
Members of the Moledi family in Soweto, South Africa watch a live broadcast of the inauguration of President-elect Nelson Mandela in Pretoria, May 10, 1994. Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black president. (AP Photo/Joao Silva)
African National Congress (ANC) and president-to-be Nelson Mandela (C), flanked by bodyguards, hugs Archbishop Manas Buthelezi as Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu (L) looks on, 08 May 1994, during a national thanks giving prayer service near Soweto. Mandela urged South Africans of all races to forget the past and join hands in building a united country. (Photo credit should read WALTER DHLADHLA/AFP/Getty Images)
South African workers prepare to mount the new South African flag in Pretoria 06 May 1994, at the Union Building in preparation for the inauguration of President-designate Nelson Mandela on 10 May 1994. (Photo credit should read WALTER DHLADHLA/AFP/Getty Images)
South African Defense Force helicopters carrying the new South African flag fly over Pretoria during the inauguration ceremony for the country's first black president, Nelson Mandela in Pretoria, South Africa, May 10, 1994. The inauguration finished with a thunderous cannon salute, warplanes trailing smoke in the national colors of red, white, blue, black, green and gold, and these helicopters carrying the redesigned flag. (AP Photo)
With the Washington Monument in the background, South African President Nelson Mandela is greeted upon his arrival in Washington by students from Washington's Anacostia High School on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 1994. Afterward President Mandela went to the White House for a meeting with President Bill Clinton. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)
President Bill Clinton and Mrs. Hillary Clinton stand with South Africa President Nelson Mandela and his daughter, Zinzi Mandela Hlongwane on Tuesday night, Oct. 4, 1994 at the North Portico of the White House. The Clintons are hosting a state dinner for Mandela. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander)
South African President Nelson Mandela, left, escorts United States first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter Chelsea, foreground Thursday, March 20, 1997 through the cell on Robben Island where he stayed for 18 of his 27 years of imprisonment. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
In this March 27, 1998 file photo, President Clinton and South African President Nelson Mandela peer through the bars of prison cell No. 5, the cramped, gray cell where Mandela was jailed for 18 years in his struggle against apartheid on Robben Island, South Africa. (AP Photo/Rick Wilking/Pool, file)
South African President Nelson Mandela kisses the hand of an unidentified girl during an early morning stroll in London's St. James' Park Wednesday, July 10, 1996. President Mandela is on a four-day State visit to Britain. (AP Photo/Andrew Buurman)
In this Wednesday August 21, 1996, file photo Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, right, meets with President Nelson Mandela, left, in Cape Town South Africa. South Africa said Monday, March 23, 2009, it wanted to avoid being the source of bad publicity about trading partner China, and ended up itself the target of sharp criticism for barring the Dalai Lama from a peace conference in Johannesburg later this week. Friday's conference is now the target of a boycott by retired Cape Town Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former president F.W. de Klerk and members of the Nobel Committee who had been expected to be among Nobel laureates, Hollywood celebrities and other dignitaries discussing issues ranging from combatting racism to promoting sports to bring people and nations together. (AP Photo/Sasa Kralj, File)
Members of the British pop group the Spice Girls, left to right, Mel B, Mel C, Emma, Geri and Victoria, meet with Britain's Prince Charles, second right, and South African President Nelson Mandela, right, in Pretoria Saturday, November 1, 1997. Prince Charles will attend a pop concert in Johannesburg with his son Prince Harry later Saturday to watch the Spice Girls perform. (AP Photo / Adil Bradlow)
This June 24, 1995, file photo shows South African rugby captain Francios Pienaar, right, receiving the Rugby World Cup trophy from President Nelson Mandela, left, who wears a South African rugby shirt, after South Africa defeated New Zealand in the finals in Johannesburg. Fifteen years later, another World Cup on South African soil has the power to shape the country anew. (AP Photo / Ross Setford, File)
South African President Nelson Mandela (C) gestures during a press conference with Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko (L) and rebel leader Laurent-Desire Kabila (R) aboard the SAS Outeniqua in Pointe Noire harbour, Congo Sunday May 4, 1997, after the first face-to-face peace talks between the two rivals. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer,POOL)
Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela, center, chats with Prof. Dame Leonie Kramer, right, vice chancellor of the University of Sydney, and Sir Gerard Brennan, left, chancellor of the University of Technology, after the former South African leader received two honorary doctorates at Sydney University Iin Sydney Monday, Sept. 4, 2000. Mandela received a Doctor of Laws from both the universities and will continue on his week-long tour of Australia, visiting Canberra and Melbourne later this week. (AP Photo/David Gray, Pool)
Oscar winning Actress Charlize Theron wipes away tears as she meets former South African President Nelson Mandela at Mandela House following her Academy Awards success, on March 11, 2004 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Naashon Zalk/Getty Images)
Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa Nelson Mandela and F.W Deklerk attend the opening ceremony for The Presidents Cup between USA and The Internatioanl team on November 20, 2003 at The Links Fancourt Golf Course, George, South Africa. (Photo by Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)
In this handout provided by the Clinton Foundation, former U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) poses with former South African President Nelson Mandela on the eve of his 94th birthday at his residence July 17, 2012 in Qunu, South Africa. Along with his daughter Chelsea, Clinton met with Mandela for 90 minutes. (Photo by Barbara Kinney/Clinton Foundation via Getty Images)
Former South African President Nelson Mandela holds his wife Graca Machel while looking at his 87th birthday cake during the third Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, 19 July 2005 in Johannesburg. Mandela was presented with a white cake with four candles, which he blew out to loud applause from the audience, which sang "Happy Birthday" led on by a boisterous Desmond Tutu. AFP PHOTO/ALEXANDER JOE
South African President Nelson Mandela stands with Graca Machel, wife of the late former President of Mozambique Samora Machel, in this undated photo. According to South African news reports Thursday, July 16, 1998, the couple are expected to marry on Saturday July 18, 1998, his 80th birthday, at a private ceremony at his home in Johannesburg. (AP Photo/Benny Gool)
In this July 24, 2007 file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela, center, shares a lighter moment ending his 89th birthday celebrations with children at the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund in Johannesburg. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, file)
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