Current Affairs 5- dec-2013

1.It is the End of the Era  of  South Africa’s son ,South African Gandhi , 1^st Black president Nelson mendela(1918-2013) The great conciliator is gone. Nelson Mandela, whose unbreakable spirit and shining magnanimity knit together a South Africa torn by centuries of racism and exploitation, died late Thursday at 95.

Mandela will rightly be remembered as a paragon of reconciliation, a man who, as former US President Bill Clinton put it in 2012, “was willing to share the future even with the people who imprisoned him.” He was the president who accepted his former adversary, apartheid’s last president, FW de Klerk, as his deputy; the democratic socialist who refused calls to nationalize industries and sought to lure foreign investment; the former black prisoner who, as De Klerk said, “won the hearts of millions of white rugby fans” by famously celebrating the 1995 triumph of the Springboks, South Africa’s once-boycotted rugby team.

Always his goal was to unite, not divide. His moral leadership, in turn, made possible South Africa’s rapid transition from a sanctioned pariah to an emerging-market powerhouse.

It takes nothing away from Mandela’s ennobling vision of a nation united by common purpose to say that much remains to be done to make South Africa’s economy more inclusive for its citizens. For South Africa’s leaders, including President Jacob Zuma, the best way to celebrate Mandela’s achievements is to give his cause of equality meaning in economic terms.

                                                                                    

2.Top class football action, on a scale not seen in the country before, is coming the way of Indian fans. FIFA, the international football body, on Thursday awarded India the right to host the Under-17 World Cup in 2017.

3.Sushma singh become the Chief information commissioner.

4. Gross direct tax collections grow 13.2% to Rs 3.7 lakh cr in April-Nov
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