Nelson Mandela has died after a long life - long yet lamentably truncated in that he spent twenty-seven of the best years of his manhood incarcerated at the pleasure of the state. He was, and by the time of his death universally held to be, a great man. He well may be the last of the great men, as the concept of greatness retires into the historical shadows.
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Touchstone of self-esteem in the Post-Apartheid era.