Nelson Mandela: Prisoner, president and father of 'Rainbow Nation'

JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela's long walk from apartheid prisoner to South African president remade a country and inspired the world. Mandela died peacefully at home in Johannesburg aged 95 after spending months in critical condition following treatment for a lung infection. Thirteen years earlier, on February 11, 1990, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela emerged, greying but unbowed, from 27 years detention for opposing the white-minority apartheid regime. It was a defining moment of the 20th century. In freeing the world's most famous political prisoner, President FW de Klerk sent an unequivocal message: after centuries of subjugation, millions of other black South Africans would soon be free too....