Gallery: Remembering Madiba in pictures

Former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela passed away yesterday at the age of 95.

Mandela and his first wife, Winnie, in their wedding photo in 1957.

Eight men, among them Nelson Mandela, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia trial leave the Palace of Justice in Pretoria on June 16 1964 with their fists raised in defiance through the barred windows of the prison car. The eight men were accused of conspiracy, sabotage and treason.

African women demonstrate in front of the Law Courts in Pretoria on June 16 1964, after the verdict of the Rivonia trial.

A jubilant Sowetan holds up a newspaper announcing the release of anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela, at a mass ANC rally in February 1990.

Nelson Mandela greets supporters following his release from prison on February 11, 1990.

Young boys try to see anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela at Orlando soccer stadium whilst thousands of Sowetans wait for him following his release from prison.

Mandela shakes hands with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on July 4 1990 on the steps of No 10 Downing Street.

Mandela speaks to members of the press on the White House South Lawn in Washington DC on June 25 1990, as former US President George Bush looks on.

Anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress member Nelson Mandela hugs a young Sowetan girl as he visits the township near Johannesburg in October 1990.

Nelson Mandela and Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi hug each other on May 18 1990 upon Mandela's arrival to Tripoli.

Mandela walks arm in arm with his daughter, Zinzi Mandela, at her wedding on October 26 1992 in Soweto.

Mandela congratulates Springbok skipper Francois Pienaar after handing him the William Webb Ellis trophy at the rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg June 24 1995. Mandela made a statement when he chose to controversially wear the Springbok jersey, previously viewed as a symbol of apartheid. The Springboks beat New Zealand 15-12 in overtime.

In 1995, Mandela visited his former cell in notorious Robben Island prison off the coast of Cape Town where he spent 19 of his 27 years in jail.

Mandela arrives at his residence for a meeting with doctors in Johannesburg on November 24, 2000. Doctors said they had found an 'abnormality' in the blood of 82-year-old former South African president Nelson Mandela, but that it presented no threat to his life.

Mandela and former US President George W. Bush meet privately in the Oval Office of the White House, May 17, 2005.

Mandela cuts his birthday cake next to his wife Graca Machel during his 90th birthday celebrations on July 19, 2008 at his house

Thousands of people celebrate the 95th birthday of their 'Father of the Nation' Nelson Mandela outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where he was being treated on July 18, 2013 in Pretoria, South Africa.