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Leila de Wet, two and a half years old, holds flowers in front of a wall of flowers laid by mourners outside late South African former president Nelson Mandela’s home in Houghton, Johannesburg, on December 7, 2013, two 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/CARL DE SOUZA (Photo credit should read CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)

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