Tuesday, June 11, 2013

South Africa: Nation readies to bid Nelson Mandela farewell

Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP

Nelson Mandela's lengthy absence from the spotlight has forced his adoring country to envisage what their hard-won and often fraught multi-racial democracy means without the man who forged it.

The beloved and frail 94-year-old, who is back in hospital with a lung infection, still embodies for most South Africans the "Rainbow Nation" he strived for despite endless persecution at the hands of white apartheid

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