Jakes Gerwel, friend and aide to Mandela, dies
Jakes Gerwel, who advocated for the end of apartheid in South Africa and became a longtime friend and trusted aide to former President Nelson Mandela, died Wednesday.
The Black Panther leader Elmer ``Geronimo'' Pratt, who spent 27 years in prison for a murder of which he was later exonerated, died yesterday at his home in Tanzania at the age of 63.