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Nelson Mandela
16 December 2013 Last updated at 17:37

Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie, walking hand in hand, raise clenched fists upon his release from Victor prison, Cape Town, 11  February 1990A life in pictures

Photos of the lawyer, anti-apartheid fighter, prisoner and president

Child in QunuGoing home to Qunu

Explore the village where Nelson Mandela herded sheep as a boy in the 1920s and where he will finally be laid to rest on Sunday.

Mandela buried at ancestral homeCoffin of Nelson Mandela in Qunu (15 Dec 2013)

South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela is buried at his ancestral home, after political and religious leaders pay tribute at his state funeral.


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