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Video: Nelson Mandela playlist

Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president and the man widely seen as the architect of a peaceful transition to democracy after three centuries of apartheid rule, has died at his home in the Johannesburg suburb of Houghton. He was 95.

Friday 06 December 2013 12:18 GMT
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Flowers have been laid in front of a portrait of late Nelson Mandela at the front window of the South-Africa embassy in Brussels
Flowers have been laid in front of a portrait of late Nelson Mandela at the front window of the South-Africa embassy in Brussels (Getty Images)

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