South Africa remembers Nelson Mandela one year after his death

South Africans remembered Nelson Mandela on Friday in ceremonies across the country, one year after the iconic leader's death at age 95.

Mandela, who was elected as South Africa's first post-apartheid president in 1994, became an international human rights figure for his work to end the country's segregation

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His family gathered with national leaders to lay a wreath of flowers at a bronze statue of Mandela in Pretoria. Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged South Africans to continue the leader's work.

“Our obligation to Madiba is to continue to build the society he envisaged, to follow his example,” Tutu said in a statement, using Mandela's clan name. “A society founded on human rights, in which all can share in the rich bounty God bestowed on our country. In which all can live in dignity, together. A society of better tomorrows for all.” Read more...

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