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A girl lights a candle for South African former president Nelson Mandela at a wall of flowers laid by mourners outside Mandela’s home in Houghton, Johannesburg, on December 8, 2013, three days after his death. 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. Mandela, who was elected South Africa’s first black president after spending nearly three decades in prison, had been receiving treatment for a lung infection at his Johannesburg home since September, after three months in hospital in a critical state. AFP PHOTO / PEDRO UGARTE