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 ...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela reacts at the Mandela foundation, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday June 2, 2009, during a meeting with a group of American and South African ...

This might make for an awkward family reunion: Nelson Mandela’s grandson is denying he sold the rights to his famous grandfather’s funeral to the South African Broadcasting Corporation for about ...

QUNU, SOUTH AFRICA - DECEMBER 15: Karlind Govender and his wife Katharina, of Cape Town overlook the burial site as a 21 gun salute is fired in honour of former South African President Nelson Mandela ...

JOHANNESBURG - An ox will be slaughtered, the deceased will be wrapped in a leopard skin and a family elder will keep talking to the body's spirit. The state funeral for Nelson Mandela on Sunday will ...

QUNU, South Africa (AP) -- Anti-apartheid champion Nelson Mandela was buried in his home village on Sunday after a funeral that mixed ancient tribal rituals with a display of the might of the new, ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Flags were lowered to half-staff across South Africa and people in black townships, in upscale mostly white suburbs and in the country's vast rural grasslands commemorated Nelson ...

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 ...