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Mandela and his second wife Graca Machel (He divorced Winnie in 1996) at the funeral of his life-long friend and anti-apartheid hero Walter Sisulu, at the Soweto stadium on May 17, 2003.

Mandela's words, 'The struggle is my life,' still hold at 85. He recently refused to meet US president George Bush on his Africa visit in protest against the American strike against Iraq.

Photo: Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images

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