Nelson Mandela was buried in his childhood village of Qunu on Sunday as tribal leaders clad in animal skins joined dignitaries in dark suits at the grave site overlooking the rolling green hills. As ...

Some African leaders transformed their home villages into monuments glorifying themselves. Nelson Mandela rejected such extravagance and will be... For Burial, Mandela Will Return To His Beloved ...

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Gardeners mowed the lawn outside the tiny museum honoring local hero Nelson Mandela on Thursday, while a work crew laid new tarmac on the road outside his house and a school choir rehearsed a song ...

The (former Transkei) village where Nelson Mandela was born has received a health boost in the form of a mobile clinic donated by an American non-profit organisation. Eastern Cape health department ...

PRETORIA (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela's body was being flown on Saturday to South Africa's Eastern Cape region, headed for a state funeral on Sunday in his ancestral village after a send-off for the ...

When Nelson Mandela died last week, the internet had its own sort of Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which went rather less well than South Africa’s. But this sort of hypocrisy is only of mild ...

When a towering figure like Nelson Mandela dies — a revolutionary, an emancipator, South Africa’s first black president, one of the most beloved figures ever in the struggle against not just apartheid ...

JOHANNESBURG - Former South African President Nelson Mandela made a rare public appearance Wednesday when the African National Congress party brought its centenary celebrations to his home village.

Sunday, Nelson Mandela was laid to rest in the rural homestead of Qunu, South Africa. NPR's Gregory Warner joins Rachel Martin to talk about the... Mandela Is Laid To Rest In His Beloved Village ...

QUNU, South Africa >> The rural home where Nelson Mandela grew up in the 1920s had mud walls, a grass thatched roof, and a floor polished smooth with cow dung. When throngs flood Mandela’s hometown on ...