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Good afternoon. You're watching Newsround with me, Ricky, on the day | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
the world mourns the death - and celebrates the life - of Nelson | :00:10. | :00:10. | |
Mandela. Welcome to a specially extended | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
Newsround, all about the life of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
black president, and one of the world's most inspirational leaders, | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
- who died peacefully last night, aged 95. Nelson Mandela spent 27 | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
years in prison after protesting against apartheid - the racist way | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
South Africa used to be ruled. He is seen a hero across the world for | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
helping to end that system. Later in the programme, we will hear from | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
CBBC star Doc Brown, and from kids here in the UK about what Nelson | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Mandela means to them. But first let's look at his incredible life. | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
Today in South Africa, people were singing and dancing to celebrate the | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
life of one of the greatest leaders in the world. Although people are | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
sad that he has gone, they are also thankful that he had a long and | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
remarkable life, which was an incredible journey from prison to | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
president. I am just glad that he did all he did for us, and | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
hopefully, we will continue the legacy as the youth. When Nelson | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
Mandela was a young man, white and black people in South Africa lived | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
separate lives, under a racist system called apartheid. Under this | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
system, white people - who were a small part of the population - were | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
in charge. They made it illegal for black people to use the same | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
schools, hospitals, and even beaches as white people, and conditions in | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
the schools and hospitals for white people were much better. Black | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
people were also denied basic rights like being allowed to vote in | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
elections. Nelson Mandela believed everybody should be treated equally | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
and led protests against apartheid. Sometimes they turned violent, and | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
in 1964, he was sentenced to life in prison. Finally, in 1990, a white | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
leader, President FW de Klerk, let him go. He walked to freedom after | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
27 years in jail, and was greeted as a hero. Amazingly, his long time in | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
prison didn't make him bitter, and his message was always one of | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
forgiveness and unity. We soon grasped the fact that we are not | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
conducting the struggle against individual whites, we are fighting a | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
principle, fighting white domination, and in the course of | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
that struggle, we can form friendships with people from the | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
other side. Apartheid was abolished in 1991, and three years later, | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
South Africa held its first elections in which black people as | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
well as white were allowed to vote. Nelson Mandela was elected president | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
and set about trying to bring people of different races together. He | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
became one of the world's most popular leaders. And today world | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
leaders praised a man who they said was an inspiration. We have lost one | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
of the most influential, courageous and profoundly good human beings | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
that any of us will share time with on this earth. | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
There has also been a huge reaction to Nelson Mandela's death here in | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
the UK. Prime Minister David Cameron said that "a great light has gone | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
out in the world". For many people, Mandela's message of forgiveness and | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
standing up to oppression is still relevant. Four O'Clock Club star Doc | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Brown told Newsround it is vital that Mandela is remembered. For | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
children watching this now, I would say, if you have ever been | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
discriminated against or if you have ever been treated Hadley, there are | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
lessons in Mandela's story. And even if you haven't, there are lessons to | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
be learned from Nelson Mandela's story about treating other human | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
beings as you would like to be treated yourself. So, what do kids | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
here think about the news of his death? Ayshah is in London. Modest. | :04:15. | :04:26. | |
Humble. Generous. Devoted. At this school in west London, they have | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
been learning about the life of Nelson Mandela. But then, he is an | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
inspiration. Nelson Mandela was an inspiration because he brought | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
fairness and equality to the world. I think Nelson Mandela is inspiring | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
because he gave out the message that no matter what colour you are, you | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
can do anything, you can be anything, and we should continue | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
spreading his message. Nelson Mandela was an incredibly important | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
figure not just in South Africa, but also around the world. There's a | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
statue of him here right next to the Houses of Parliament. World leaders | :05:00. | :05:14. | |
like David Cameron and Barack Obama were inspired by him, but he also | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
inspired a lot of ordinary people. We came to pay our respects, and so | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
that we do not forget about Nelson Mandela. Why have you decided to | :05:25. | :05:34. | |
bring them today? Because I grew up in South Africa and my children were | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
born in England and I wanted them to remember the memory of Nelson | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Mandela, the lesson that he talked to all of us which was about | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
forgiveness. People are queueing up outside South Africa house, across | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
the road from Trafalgar Square. There are hundreds of people in a | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
long line, there is a special but in there where people can leave their | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
messages. Although people are really saddened by the news, they are also | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
celebrating the long life of an amazing person. | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
Lots of you have been paying your own tributes, too. Aya says... And | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
Maryan says he's a true legend and that... | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
That's almost it from this special Newsround programme on the life of | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
Nelson Mandela, who died last night. We will leave you with these images. | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
Goodbye. # When I get older, I will be | :06:34. | :06:47. | |
stronger... | :06:48. | :06:57. |