Following a period ill health, former South African President Nelson Mandela has died at 95 years of age from a recurrent lung infection while resting in his boyhood home region of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Nelson Mandela’s fight against white minority rule and his leadership of South Africa after the abolition of apartheid in 1994 serve as inspirations to freedom fighters the world over and have firmly secured Nelson Mandela’s place in world history among the great leaders of the modern era.

[CNN]