Father of Modern South Africa Nelson Mandela, Died at aged 95 in Johannesburg

(FILES) Former South African President Nelson Mandela is pictured during a visit by former US president on July 17, 2012 at his home in Qunu, Eastern Cape, on the eve of his 94th birthday.

People light candles on December 6, 2013 outside the house of former South African President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg following his death in this town on the eve. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, has died aged 95. Mandela, who was elected South Africa's first black president after spending nearly three decades in prison, had been receiving treatment for a lung infection at his Johannesburg home since September, after three months in hospital in a critical state