Mandela Funeral Expected to Be One of Biggest in History

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mandelaNelson Mandela’s funeral will be held at his ancestral home in Qunu a week on Sunday, it has been announced.

The news came as grieving for the iconic anti-apartheid leader turned to a celebration of his life, and tributes continued to pour in.

South Africa’s first black president died at his Johannesburg home following a long illness.

The 95-year-old had established a unique global status after spending nearly three decades as a political prisoner before leading his country through an unexpectedly peaceful transition to democracy.

Current South African President Jacob Zuma confirmed Mandela’s body will lie in state for three days before a funeral is held on December 15 in Qunu, the village in Eastern Cape where he was born.

Meanwhile, thousands of South Africans gathered outside Mandela’s home in Johannesburg’s Houghton neighborhood, where they sang songs and danced in memory of the man affectionately known as Madiba.

Large numbers also flocked to Vilakazi Street in Soweto where the former leader previously lived. Read more here.

{Matzav.com Newscenter}


7 COMMENTS

  1. I will never forget the imperious and haughty attitude he evidenced upon his world tour after being released from prison and how he physically embraced the murderer Yasir Arafat.

  2. Rabbi Miller said that most famous people in history were reshoim.

    Mandela was a soneh Yisroel and instituted the rampant retzicha of levonim (not shechorim) in South Africa. It is an aveira there now tzu geben a job to a lovon. He was a world class rosha, yimach shmo vezichro

  3. Looking at what happened to Mandela gives me hope that iyh Jonathan Pollard will have the same yeshua and in good health become a forceful leader for good things in Israel

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