Well-wishers release balloons for Mandela
Reuters
2013-06-27
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Well-wishers' messages, bouquets and stuffed animals have piled up at the guarded boundary around the compound where doctors are treating Mandela for a recurrent lung infection.
His health deteriorated at the weekend, bringing the sombre realisation for South Africa's 53 million people that the man who epitomised defiance of white minority rule and forged the post-apartheid "Rainbow Nation" may not be with them for ever.
Well-wishers' messages, bouquets and stuffed animals have piled up at the guarded boundary around the compound where doctors are treating Mandela for a recurrent lung infection.
His health deteriorated at the weekend, bringing the sombre realisation for South Africa's 53 million people that the man who epitomised defiance of white minority rule and forged the post-apartheid "Rainbow Nation" may not be with them for ever.
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