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South African leader Nelson Mandela dies at 95 JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela, who emerged from more than a quarter of a century in prison to steer a troubled African nation to its first multiracial democracy, uniting the country by reaching out to fearful whites and becoming a revered symbol of racial reconciliation around the world, died Thursday. He was 95. South African President
Jacob Zuma made the announcement in a somber televised address to the nation Thursday. “Fellow South Africans, Nelson Mandela brought us together, and it is together that we will bid him farewell,� Zuma said. Long before his release in 1990, at age 71, Mandela was an inspiration to millions of blacks seeking to end the oppression of more than four
decades of apartheid, and his continued imprisonment spawned international censure of South Africa’s whiteminority government. Mandela and the man who released him, President Frederik W. de Klerk, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. A year later, Mandela, the son of a tribal chief, succeeded de Klerk after a historic, peaceful election, the im-
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“He was an inspiration to many, including myself,� Brownback said. “My thoughts and prayers go to his family.� In October, the Dole Institute awarded Mandela the 2013 Dole Leadership Prize, recognizing his decades-long struggle to end racial segregation in his native South Africa and his later efforts as president to unify the country. His great-grandson, Luvuyo Mandela, accepted the prize on his behalf. A militant leader of the once-outlawed African National Congress, Mandela was convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government in 1962 and was sentenced to life in prison. He served 27 years, much of it at the infamous Robben Island prison, until his release in 1989 when South Africa began dismantling its policy of racial segregation known as apartheid. While he was in prison, though, Mandela grew in stature and became a symbol for democracy and civil rights movements around the world. He also inspired anti-apartheid sympathy movements on college campuses in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s as students
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WHITNEY KLEINMANN, SEATED ON HER FATHER’S SHOULDERS AT LEFT, remembers her family meeting Nelson Mandela by chance during a cruise to the Bahamas in 1994, when she was 4. Kleinmann, who now lives in the Kansas City area, graduated from Kansas University in May. demonstrated to urge their universities and endowment associations to divest from investments in South African companies. “I cannot think of anyone who had greater moral authority than Nelson Mandela and was able to translate his moral authority into reality,� said Ron Kuby, a KU alumnus who organized antiapartheid protests at KU in the late 1970s. Kuby, who is now a criminal defense lawyer in New York, has remained active in civil rights causes since his days at KU, and for a while appeared frequently as a commentator on cable news networks. Kuby remained passionately opposed to apartheid and the Endowment
Association’s investment policies long after leaving KU, and for many years even refused to join the KU Alumni Association. “I always refused until Nelson Mandela was free, and South Africa set up the Kuby Truth and Reconciliation Commissions,� Kuby said. “I figured if Nelson Mandela can reconcile with the apartheid regime, I can join the KU Alumni Association. And I did — and sent them a check with a note to that effect.� Malcolm Gibson, a retired KU journalism
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as “one of the magic moments� of his life and compared it to his wedding and birth of his children. “Those who followed South Africa always thought that it would explode, and it didn’t because of Nelson Mandela,� Gibson said. Whitney Kleinmann, who graduated from KU in May, is too young to remember that era. But she Submitted Photo does remember her family RETIRED KANSAS UNIVERSITY meeting Mandela during a PROFESSOR MALCOLM GIBSON chance encounter in 1994, less than a year after he was stands with Nelson Mandela during a 1993 backyard bar- elected the nation’s first becue in Johannesburg, South post-apartheid president. Late that year, her famAfrica.
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Africa’s Transkei region, now the Eastern Cape. Mandela wrote later that he was unable to pinpoint “when I knew that I would spend my life in the liberation struggle.� But he knew why: “A thousand slights, a thousand indignities,� he said, had produced “an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people.�
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whites and blacks accused of political violence. As a leader of the African National Congress, or ANC, Mandela was at the forefront of the struggle against apartheid, which used state violence and repressive laws to segregate and oppress South Africa’s black majority. Nelson Mandela was born July 18, 1918, in Mvezo, a hamlet in South
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