Tiwanna DeMoss-Norman and Omari Norman of Washington DC hold candles outside the South Africa embassy after the passing of Nelson Mandela in Washington Dec 5, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection, plunging his nation and the world into mourning for a man hailed by global leaders as a moral giant. [Photo/Agencies]

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