JOHANNESBURG: Breathlessly, the 10-year-olds at Rosebank Primary School in Johannesburg clamor to explain all about Nelson Mandela’s life.

For them, Mandela is the hero they love but never knew —as he is for the kids who this week have delivered cards, flowers and get-well messages to his Johannesburg home a short distance away as the 94-year-old icon of the struggle against apartheid fights a recurrent lung infection in hospital.

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