South Korean President Park Geun-hye offered condolences Friday over the death of South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, calling him a "great statesman" who put a peaceful end to apartheid, Yonhap news agency reported. Mandela, the icon of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, died at his Johannesburg home on Thursday, at the age of 95. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate served a single term as his country's first black president from 1994-1999 after spending 27 years in prison for his role in the fight against white minority rule.