Remembering Nelson Mandela

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 South African President Jacob Zuma announced late Thursday that revered former South African President Nelson Mandela has died. He was 95.

"This is the moment of our deepest sorrow. Our nation has lost its greatest son, yet what made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human," said Zuma in an address on CNN.

"We saw in him what we seek in ourselves and in him we saw so much of ourselves. Fellow South Africans, Nelson Mandela brought us together and it is together that we will bid him farewell," he added.

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