VIDEO: Nelson Mandela dies

MANILA, Philippines – Nelson Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died Friday.
He was 95.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner died following complications from a lung infection, after months in critical state.
Once considered a terrorist by the United States and Britain for his support of violence against the apartheid regime. Mandela was an unimpeachable moral icon at the time of his death.
Josh Villanueva reports.

We hold it as an inviolable principle that racism must be opposed by all the means that humanity has at its disposal.
The first black South African President, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, There are many ways to remember Nelson Mandela.
But the world will remember him most as the man who ended apartheid – a system of racial segregation enforced by the South African government from 1948 to 1994 – the system that brought about white supremacy and curtailed the rights of the predominantly black citizenry.
Mandela called it a disease whose mark cannot be removed.

NELSON MANDELA, FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT: It will forever remain an indelible blight on human history that the apartheid crime ever occurred. It will forever remain an accusation and a challenge to all men and women of conscience that it took as long as it has before all of us stood up to say ‘enough is enough.’
Today the world says goodbye to Mandela after the respected statesman lost a long-time battle with lung-infection.

He turned 95, July 18.

He was receiving medical care at home but earlier this year had spent 3 months under intensive care at a hospital.

His “long walk to freedom” saw him jailed for 27 years a prisoner of the system he put an end to in 1994 the same year he was elected president.
After his term ended in 1999 Mandela took on the role of elder statesman and fought to end poverty and HIV/Aids.
Mandela retired from public life in 2004 and has not been seen in public since the football World Cup finals in South Africa in 2010.
His legacy lives on, forever.
Michael Josh Villanueva, Rappler.

– Rappler.com