World stands `at a crossroads,` Obama says in rousing #MandelaLecture
(World News South Africa)

Johannesburg - Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, paid homage on Tuesday to the late Nelson Mandela, South Africa`s first black leader, on the centenary of his birth. Obama lauded Mandela - who spent 27 years in prison for his struggle against South Africa`s racist apartheid government - but his speech was also heavily focused on the global political present. `It is a singular honour for me to be here... gathered to celebrate the birth and life of one of history`s true giants,` Obama said on taking the podium. Mandela `came to embody the universal aspirations of dispossessed people all around the world with hopes for a better life, and the possibility of a moral...