The funeral of former South African leader Nelson Mandela will take place on Dec. 15 — a Sunday — in the Eastern Cape village of Qunu, South African President Jacob Zuma has said. Mandela grew up in ...

The funeral of former South African President Nelson Mandela will be held on Dec. 15, President Jacob Zuma announced Friday. Mandela, the first black President of South Africa who led the country out ...

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(AP) Nelson Mandela’s casket was draped in a lion skin, an ox was ritually slaughtered and a family elder kept talking to the body’s spirit: The state funeral for South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon ...

The South African icon’s great-granddaughter was killed in a car accident. Former South African President Nelson Mandela leaves the chapel after the funeral of his great-granddaughter. JOHANNESBURG — ...

Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu will attend South African president Nelson Mandela’s funeral Sunday, after briefly canceling plans because he said he was left off the guest list by government ...

JOHANNESBURG: More than 70 leaders from across the world, some of them locked in enmity, are flying to South Africa for memorials to Nelson Mandela that will hail one of humanity’s great peacemakers, ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu will attend the funeral on Sunday of his friend and fellow anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, his spokesman said on Saturday, ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A somber and frail Nelson Mandela attended the funeral Thursday for his 13-year-old great-granddaughter, who was killed in a car crash after the World Cup's opening concert, and ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela joined hundreds of mourners on Thursday at the funeral of the former South African president's great-granddaughter who was killed in car crash last week. The ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Nelson Mandela's casket was draped in a lion skin, an ox was ritually slaughtered and a family elder kept talking to the body's spirit: The state funeral for South Africa's ...