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An engraved-style portrait of Nelson Mandela in an oval frame, the ₹5 stamp of the India–South Africa joint issue of 26 July 2018, for his birth centenary. Mandela (1918–2013), imprisoned for 27 years, became South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994; India awarded him the Bharat Ratna in 1990.