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Events on Thursday 5 December 2013 2
1918 – 2013Nelson MandelaAnti-apartheid leader and first president of democratic South Africa, 1918-2013Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison before becoming South Africa's first democratically elected president in 1994, ending apartheid.
2013Nelson Mandela diesFather of the Rainbow Nation, age 95Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013, aged 95, at his home in Johannesburg. The first democratically elected president of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate was mourned worldwide.