Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa confirms that legendary leader Nelson Mandela has died. Mandela, revered by millions for his struggle for justice and equality, has been long suffering the effects of advanced age.
Rarely do great leaders like Mandela emerge and rarer still when they are so critically needed as was the case when Mandela took South Africa out of its racist apartheid state transforming it into a multi-racial democracy.
He will be missed.
