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A woman walks past a row of biographies of late South African president Nelson Mandela at a book shop in Colombo 6 December, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero Mandela, affectionately called “Madiba” by the South African people, died peacefully at home in Johannesburg at the age of 95 on Thursday after months fighting a lung infection, leaving his nation and the world in mourning for a man revered as a moral giant – REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte