Illumination for an emancipator

8 December 2013 03:11 pm

A girls lights a candle during a mass commemorating late South African former president Nelson Mandela on December 8, 2013 in Soweto, near Johannesburg. South Africans crowded into churches, mosques, temples and synagogues on December 8 to remember Mandela, encouraged by their president to celebrate a life that transcended race and religion. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died in Johannesburg on December 5 at age 95. AFP