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"He is now resting… he is now at peace,"
said South African President Jacob Zuma
about the death of Nelson Mandela, the
towering moral giant of the 20th and 21st
centuries, who has died aged 50. "Our
nation has lost its greatest son." As soon
as the news about his death started
spreading in the media and via social
networks, thousands of tributes emerged.
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Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan also
mourns the loss of one of history's 'greatest
liberators' in his condolence message to
South Africa.
"Mandela will always be remembered and
honoured by all mankind as one of its
greatest liberators, a wise, courageous and
compassionate leader, and an icon of true
democracy," Jonathan said, describing the
former South African president as a "source
of inspiration to the oppressed peoples all
over the world."
His passing will "create a huge vacuum that
will be difficult to fill in our continent," Mr.
President concluded.
Meanwhile, first black president of the
United States of America Barack Obama,
too, decried the loss of the "profoundly
good" man who "took history in his hands
and bent the arc of the moral universe
towards justice."
President Obama remembers Nelson
Mandela: "A man who took history in
his hands and bent the arc of the moral
universe towards justice."