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sheshe2

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Wed Dec 11, 2013, 12:47 AM Dec 2013

Holding on to Madiba~ [View all]



A man holds the official programme ahead of the memorial service for Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium in Soweto

http://theobamadiary.com/

In our hearts, we hold his spirit and his compassion, yet~

Obama: 'He belongs to the ages'

"We've lost one of the most influential, courageous and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this earth," said current U.S. President Barack Obama, the first black leader of his own country who said his first public activism was an anti-apartheid protest. "He no longer belongs to us. He belongs to the ages."


http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/05/world/africa/nelson-mandela-dies/


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