epa03978381 (FILE) A file picture dated on 04 April 2006 shows former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela (L) and his wife Graca Machel (R) wave after bidding farewell to German President Horst Koehler and his wife Eva at their home in Maputo, Mozambique. According to media reports Nelson Mandela has died aged 95, in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 05 December 2013. A former lawyer, Mandela was the first black President of South Africa voted into power after the countries first free and fair democratic elections that witnessed the end of the Apartheid system in 1994. Mandela was founding member of the ANC (African National Congress) and anti-apartheid activist who served 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. In South Africa, Mandela is often known as uTata Madiba, an honorary title adopted by elders of Mandela's clan. Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. EPA/WOLFGANG KUMM
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