QUNU, South Africa – His flag-draped casket resting on a carpet of animal skins, Nelson Mandela was laid to rest Sunday in the green, rolling hills of the eastern hamlet where he began his ...

QUNU, South Africa -- South Africans buried their anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela, in the Eastern Cape hills where he was born, after a stirring ceremony marked by stories of his mischievous side ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Poet and traditional praise singer Zolani Mkiva spent 13 years traveling alongside Nelson Mandela and performing songs in honor of the now-hospitalized former South African ...

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Artillery boomed and military aircraft roared through a cloud-studded sky, as the simple and the celebrated gathered to pay their final respects in Mandela's native village of Qunu at a state funeral ...

QUNU, South Africa — His flag-draped casket resting on a carpet of animal skins, Nelson Mandela was laid to rest on Sunday in the green, rolling hills of the eastern hamlet where he began his ...