Nelson Mandela, from apartheid fighter to president and unifier

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Nelson Mandela, from apartheid fighter to president and unifier

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nelson-mandela-apartheid-fighter-president-unifier-215242484.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/K9t417NdkMPF15HrPHR29A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-12-05T223922Z_2_CBRE9B41QCA00_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-MANDELA-OBITUARY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="File photo of former South African President Nelson Mandela waving to the crowd during the closing ceremony for the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg" align="left" title="File photo of former South African President Nelson Mandela waving to the crowd during the closing ceremony for the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg" border="0" /></a>Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to multi-racial democracy, as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the struggle for justice around the world. Imprisoned for nearly three decades for his fight against white minority rule, Mandela emerged determined to use his prestige and charisma to bring down apartheid while avoiding a civil war. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come,&quot; Mandela said in his acceptance speech on becoming South Africa's first black president in 1994. &quot;We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation.&quot; In 1993, Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor he shared with F.W. de Klerk, the white Afrikaner leader who freed him from prison three years earlier and negotiated the end of apartheid.</p><br clear="all"/>

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