Nelson Mandela, who led the emancipation of South Africa from white minority rule and served as his country's first black president, becoming an international emblem of dignity and forbearance, died Thursday. He was 95 . The South African president, Jacob Zuma, announced Mr. Mandela's death.
Mr. Mandela had long declared he wanted a quiet exit, but his final weeks in a Pretoria hospital were a clamor of quarreling family, hungry news media, spotlight-seeking politicians and a national outpou
