Very sad news. Not shocking, given his health issues. But his loss will be staggering nonetheless. An icon to millions, a true legend.
I remember seeing him when he came to Boston not long after he was released from prison. Incredible excitement, and a real sense that young people, from universities around the world, were instrumental in exposing and isolating the SA regime and forcing them to release him.
Not many men would be able to walk out of a cage after 25 odd years and shake the hand of his jailer.
He lived the very lesson the world's holy books espouse.
R.I.P.