Nelson Mandela obituary

 Nelson Mandela in traditional dress in 1950. Photograph: Apic/Getty Images

Hero of the apartheid struggle, he spent 26 years in jail and then became South Africa's first democratically elected president.
One must go back to Dallas, Texas, in 1963 to find a comparable occasion of collective bereavement as that which has met the death of Nelson Mandela, at the age of 95. Even the assassination of President John F Kennedy registered less resonantly in the days before the global village – and, in any case, the trajectory of the American politician's life represented promise shattered rather than hope fulfilled. (to read the article go to this links at The Guardian).