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JOHANNESBURG - At Nelson Mandela's old house in the Soweto district here, a crowd swelled to hundreds Friday to pay their respects – singing schoolchildren, men of all races in South Africa's green rugby uniform with their wives and the elderly that lived through apartheid.

They all praised the man that left a better South Africa than the one he was born into 95 years ago, even as thoughts turned to the future.

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