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| Newspaper review: Nelson Mandela tributes in UK press | Newspaper review: Nelson Mandela tributes in UK press |
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| As people across the world digest the news of Nelson Mandela's death, the British media has been reflecting on the life of Africa's most famous son. | As people across the world digest the news of Nelson Mandela's death, the British media has been reflecting on the life of Africa's most famous son. |
| South African President Jacob Zuma's press conference came too late for many of the UK's first editions but the Daily Mail was among those to lead with the story, dedicating most of page one to Mr Mandela. | |
| Likewise, the Sun uses a powerful image of the former president giving a clenched fist salute on its front, promising an eight-page tribute inside. | Likewise, the Sun uses a powerful image of the former president giving a clenched fist salute on its front, promising an eight-page tribute inside. |
| Others pay respects via their websites. Mr Mandela's life - as the "architect of South Africa's transformation from racial despotism to liberal democracy" - is charted in a three-part obituary in the Daily Telegraph. | |
| To Paul Vallely, in the Independent: "He was a model of faith, hope and charity. There was about him something to which the world aspired. It was as if we saw ourselves dimly reflected in his glory." | To Paul Vallely, in the Independent: "He was a model of faith, hope and charity. There was about him something to which the world aspired. It was as if we saw ourselves dimly reflected in his glory." |
| Meanwhile, the Guardian's interactive timeline invites readers to explore key events in the life of "Madiba" by clicking through some of the most striking images taken of the former African National Congress leader. | Meanwhile, the Guardian's interactive timeline invites readers to explore key events in the life of "Madiba" by clicking through some of the most striking images taken of the former African National Congress leader. |
| Noting how the name Mr Mandela was given at birth - Rolihlahla - has the tribal meaning "one who brings trouble upon himself", the Daily Mirror says: "History will record that Nelson was a heroic troublemaker all of his life, right until the final years when his eyes would still twinkle and that unabashed laugh would ring out." | |
| Meanwhile, Ahmed Kathrada - the man with whom he shared a Robben Island prison cell - writes in the Times about "Madiba - the inspiration I knew in jail." |