South African president Jacob Zuma discussed additional ways mourners can pay tribute to anti-apartheid leader. By The Associated Press Nelson Mandela - H 2013 JOHANNESBURG — Flags were lowered to ...

QUNU, South Africa – Leaders and family members on Sunday praised South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela as a man and former president who united and freed his nation by embracing ...

QUNU, South Africa – Leaders and family members on Sunday praised South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela as a man and former president who united and freed his nation by embracing ...

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 ...

QUNU, South Africa (AP) — Leaders and family members on Sunday praised South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela as a man who united and freed his nation by fighting to end racist rule and ...

QUNU, South Africa-- Big guns fired a salute in the rural village where Nelson Mandela grew up and military servicemen marched stiffly behind his casket on a winding dirt road Sunday as South Africa ...

QUNU, South Africa — Death, marriage and the other milestones of life are going on for the ordinary people of Nelson Mandela‘s home district of Qunu, even as the world prepares for a historic burial ...

QUNU, South Africa -- Songs, speeches and the boom of artillery rang across Nelson Mandela's home village during his funeral Sunday as a tribal chief adorned in a leopard skin declared: "A great tree ...

Earlier today, former South African President Nelson Mandela was laid to rest in his childhood hometown of Qunu. The first service, including a two-hour processional, began on Saturday at 10 p.m. ET.

World leaders, President Obama among them, used the memorial service for Nelson Mandela as an opportunity to meet and greet and schmooze. No glowing eulogy would make the late, great liberator any ...