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Actor David Harewood, who portrayed Mandela in the 2010 film Mrs. Mandela, said on Twitter: "RIP Nelson Mandela. "We will never see his like again." [189] Actor Dennis Haysbert, who portrayed Mandela in the 2007 film Goodbye Bafana, commented "Portraying Nelson Mandela, in the film 'Goodbye Bafana' was a defining moment in my life and my career ...
This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office. In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/ m æ n ˈ d ɛ l ə / man-DEL-ə, [1] Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Winnie Mandela, a South African anti-Apartheid activist and wife of former president Nelson Mandela, died in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was 81. “She died after a long illness, for which she ...
The 1994 general election, held on 27 April, was South Africa's first multi-racial election with full enfranchisement.The African National Congress won a 63 percent share of the vote at the election, and Mandela, as leader of the ANC, was inaugurated on 10 May 1994 as the country's first Black President, with the National Party's F.W. de Klerk as his first deputy and Thabo Mbeki as the second ...
Anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, wife to Nelson Mandela during his decades of imprisonment, died on Monday at the age of 81.
The interactive exhibition takes a journey though Mandela's life including his upbringing in rural Eastern Cape as the son of a chief, his 27-year incarceration and the end of apartheid when he ...
On September 14, 1901, William McKinley died, eight days after being shot by Leon Czolgosz. [7] Next, Warren G. Harding suffered a heart attack, and died on August 2, 1923. [8] On April 12, 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt (who had just begun his fourth term in office) collapsed and died as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage. [9]