Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa and the anti-apartheid hero, has passed away at the age of 95.
South Africa President Jacob Zuma confirmed Mandela's death on Thursday.
Mandela passed away after almost a month of being in intensive care. He was admitted into a Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 8 with a recurring lung infection, an illness that traces back to his years in prison. During the rule of the white racist government and apartheid, Mandela spent 27 years behind bars, before being freed in 1990 and becoming South Africa's first black president in 1994.
“Death is something inevitable.When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people&his country,he can rest in peace” #Madiba
— NelsonMandela (@NelsonMandela) December 5, 2013
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Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress (ANC), adopts a boxing pose, circa 1950. Image by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
Nelson Mandela (3rd from right), leader of the African National Congress, Patrick Molaoa, and Robert Resha, are charged with treason by the South-African Union, in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1952. Image by API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.
ANC supporters give the thumb up as a prison van with Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid militants go to Johannesburg's courthouse in December, 1956. Image by OFF/AFP/Getty Images.
ANC member Nelson Mandela and his then-wife Winnie at their wedding in 1957. Image by Alf Khumalo/AFP/Getty Images.
Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, partners in their Johannesburg law practice to provide blacks with affordable legal representation. 1960. Image by Jurgen Schadeberg/Getty Images.
Nelson Mandela, President of ANC, (left) in discussion with C Andrews, a Cape Town teacher. 1964. Image by Three Lions/Getty Images.
Eight men, including anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, are sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy, sabotage and treason and leave the Palace of Justice with their fists raised in defiance, June 1964. Image by OFF/AFP/Getty Images.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat meets with Nelson Mandela in October, 1988. Image by Palestinian Authorities via Getty Images.
Anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie raise fists upon Mandela's release from Victor Verster prison on February 11, 1990. Image by Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images.
Mandela makes first speech in Capetown upon his release from the Victor Verster Prison, February 11, 1990. Image by Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images.
Nelson Mandela, wife Winnie Mandela, ANC general secretary and former Robben Island prison inmate Walter Sisulu, and other unidentified relatives raise their fists at Desmond Tutu's residence in Cape Town, one day after the release from jail of Nelson Mandela, February 12, 1990. Image by Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images.
African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie play with their grandchild Bambata at their Soweto home, February 1990. Image by Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images.
South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela and Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda wave to the crowd as they arrive at a mass rally of ANC, in Lusaka, March 1998, seat of the exiled ANC. Image by Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images.
South African National Congress President Nelson Mandela urges the U.N . to maintain sanctions against South Africa until apartheid is abolished, June 1990. Image by Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images.
Nelson Mandela waves after finishing his joint statement with former US President George Bush on the White House Lawn in Washington, DC on June 25, 1990. Kevin Larkin/AFP/Getty Images.
Nelson Mandela makes an address at a funeral of 12 people who died during recent township unrests in Soweto, September 1990. Image b y Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images.
ANC president Nelson Mandela waves to supporters during an electoral meeting, on January 30, 1994 in Rustenburg, Western Transvaal, as he campaigns for presidential election. Image by Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images.
President Nelson Mandela greets young supporters who wait for atop a billboard in a township outside Durban, 16 April 1994 prior to an election rally. Image by Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images.
Nelson Mandela campaigns during the first democratic election in Cape Town, South Africa, 1994. Image by Susan Winters Cook/Getty Images.
Nelson Mandela acknowledges a crowd of ANC supporters at a pre-election rally in April, 1994, Durban, South Africa. Image by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images.
President Nelson Mandela casts his historic vote during South Africa's first democratic and all-race general elections in April, 1994. Image by Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images.
President Mandela take the oath during his inauguration in Pretoria, South Africa, on May 10, 1994. Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images.
ANC President Nelson Mandela gives a clenched fist to supporters at his first rally in Mmabatho on December 7, 1995, after the fall of President Lucas Mangope.Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images.
Mandela, in leopard skin, releases a white dove for peace at a rally on December 7, 1995, to commemorate 34th anniversary of the massacre of 69 demonstrators by the police in Sharpville. Image by Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela holds a symbolic millennium candle on December 31, 1999 in his cell at the prison of Robben Island where he was imprisoned for 27 years during the apartheid time. Image by Yoav Lemmer/AFP/Getty Images.
Former President Nelson Mandela holds the Jules Rimet World cup beside Capetown Archbishop Desmond Tutu, May 2004. South Africa won the right to host the 2010 World Cup finals, the first to be played in Africa. Image by Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images.
Ex-South African President Nelson Mandela addresses the crowd during a statue unveiling ceremony in his honour at Parliament Square in London, England, August 29, 2007. Image by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images.
Nelson Mandela poses with South Africa Rugby Union coach Jake White and captain John Smit and the Webb-Ellis cup after South Africa defeated former champions England in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final. Image by Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images.
Nelson Mandela and Rwandan President Paul Kagame meet in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 20, 2009. Image by Denis Farrell/Pool/Getty Images.
Nelson Mandela Is reunited with the Edlers three years after he launched the group, May 2010. Jeff Moore/Handout/Getty Image.
Bill Clinton poses with Nelson Mandela on the eve of his 94th birthday at his residence in Qunu, South Africa, July 17, 2012. Image by Barbara Kinney/Clinton Foundation via Getty Images.
Tourists on 'the Mandela walk' look at an outside exhibition at Chancellor House in Pretoria on June 15, 2013, the inner city building near the law courts that sheltered Mandela & Tambo Attorneys, the office of the former South African President Nelson Mandela in the 1950s. Image by Mujahid Safodien/AFP/Getty Images.
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