Jumat, 06 Desember 2013

South Africa mourns Mandela, will bury him on December 15

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Newspapers with front pages depicting South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela are displayed at a vendor's stand in Ikoyi district in Lagos By Tosin Sulaiman and Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans united in mourning for Nelson Mandela on Friday, but while some celebrated his remarkable life with dance and song, others fretted that the anti-apartheid hero's death would make the nation vulnerable again to racial and social tensions. President Jacob Zuma said the anti-apartheid hero would be buried on December 15 at his ancestral home in the Eastern Cape. South Africans had heard from Zuma late on Thursday that the statesman and Nobel Peace Prize laureate died peacefully at his Johannesburg home in the company of his family after a long illness. Zuma also announced the former president would be honoured with a December 10 memorial service at Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium - the site of the 2010 World Cup final.



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