Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the Nobel Prize-winning revolutionary who was the driving force behind the toppling of apartheid in the other U.S.A. — Union of South Africa — and then became the nation’s first black president, died in his homeland at age 95.
Mandela became the symbol of anti-apartheid activist worldwide who aspired to have apartheid outlawed.
He was a South African anti-apartheid activist, revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first to be elected in a fully representative, multiracial election.
South African President Jacob Zuma says Nelson Mandela passed away peacefully at his Johannesburg home.
