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 ...

The funeral has been held of South Africa's first black President Nelson Mandela, who died on 5 December aged 95. Mr Mandela has been hailed as "a giant of history" for his fight against apartheid.

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 - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prince Charles will attend the funeral of former South African president Nelson Mandela next Sunday. A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said he would be representing the Queen at the service in Qunu, ...

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Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu changed course on Saturday night and announced plans to attend the funeral of anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela after all. Spokesperson Roger Friedman did not explain ...

South Africans are expected to assemble in churches, mosques and halls on Sunday for a national day of prayer and reflection honoring Nelson Mandela. The former president and anti-apartheid icon died ...

Update, 4:08 p.m. After cancelling his Friday flight and suggesting he was snubbed from his close friend Nelson Mandela's funeral by the government, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has changed his mind, ...