" Nelson Mandela " died leader and former South African president after a struggle with the disease , and that at the age of 95 years
It was announced president Jacob Zuma of South Africa news of death , and after that he was undergoing treatment for a recurring inflammation of the lung during the past months .
Zuma said a state funeral will be held for the late nicknamed Madiba , declaring mourning and lowered flags in South Africa .
The South African former president left the hospital in September, in Pretoria, where he was treated for nearly three months , to his home where he was receiving intensive care itself , which was offered to him in the hospital .
Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 in Transkei , South Africa. He is the first black president of South Africa , and won the Nobel Peace Prize , it also arrested an activist for 27 years because of their struggle and resistance to the policy of racial discrimination in the fifties and sixties of the last century .
Mandela graduated from the University of South Africa with a degree in Law in 1942 , and joined the African National Council , which had been calling for the defense of the rights of the black majority in the south of Senegal in 1944 , and became its president in 1951.
In 1961 , Mandela began to organize the armed struggle against the policies of racial discrimination , and the following year he was arrested and sentenced to five years . In 1964 , he was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of subversion .
After 27 years of imprisonment , Mandela was released on February 20, 1990 , and in 1993 , Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Frederick Dclark .
On April 29, 1994 , Mandela was elected president of South Africa , and in 1999 , announced his retirement after one term , and in the same year , he founded the Mandela Nelson Mandela Foundation charity.
Mandela married three times , was the first of Evelyn Ntoko , who divorced in 1958 , and gave birth to four sons , the second of Winnie Madikizela , and divorced in 1996 , and the third from Graca Mandela , who is still married to her until now .