MANDELA GONE AT 95

Former South African President Nelson Mandela died on Thursday at the age of 95.Mandela, the first black and post apartheid President of South Africa, died in his home in Johannesburg, according to South African President Jacob Zuma, who announced the late anti-apartheid hero’s death.Mandela was discharged from a Pretoria hospital in September after spending seven months in the lung hospital, where he was admitted for lung infection. Relatives and the South African government have consistently maintained that his condition was “stable but critical.”In announcing Mandela’s death on Thursday night, President Zuma said in his address, “Nelson Mandela, 95, passed away at his home a short while ago. While the late President’s health had been in steady decline for a number of years, it is still difficult to come to terms with the fact that he is no longer with us. I am truly proud to be from the same continent as a man such as Mandela. Rest In Peace- you deserve it.