Coverage of Nelson Mandela's passing
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People all over the world are joining South Africans today in marking the death of Nelson Mandela, the man who led his country out of race-obsessed autocracy to multiracial democracy.
Mandela died Thursday at the age of 95.
NPR quoted a black schoolteacher's observation offered in 2004, as she waited in line to vote for one of Mandela's successors:
"That man saved this country. If it wasn't because of him this country would have gone to flame, but because of his wisdom and his intelligence he saved this country."
The Daily Circuit joins the BBC for coverage of Mandela's legacy and reactions to his death.
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