South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died President Jacob Zuma announced on late Thursday. The Nobel laureate was 95. Mandela had been receiving intense home-based medical care for a lung infection after three months in hospital. He led South Africa's transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s after having spent 27 years in prison BBC reported. In a statement on South African national TV Zuma said Mandela had ‘departed’ and was at peace. ‘Our nation has lost its greatest son.’ Mandela would receive a full state funeral and flags would be flown at half-mast the
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