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Period for Nelson Mandela is over. This morning in the capital of pretoria, a 30foot steel statue of the former president was unveiled in front of the Union Buildings where his president ial offices were and today also happens to be south africas day of reconciliation, a National Holiday that came into effect in 1994 at the end of apartheid. Yesterday more than 4,000 people gathered in mandelas native village to pay their final respects. Allen pizzey has that report from qunu. Reporter transported on a gun carriage over the land he loved most, Nelson Mandela was eulogized, remembered, mourned, and finally laid to rest. He had to be buried at midday so many of the 4 and a half thousand invited guests had started traveling before dawn. 95 candles, were for each yea ....
Herman Mashaba is disingenuous to bypass the politics of race in his ode to Lucas Mangope, because racial oppression was what the homelands were about, writes Mike Siluma. ....
Mangosuthu Buthelezi was far from being a hero iol.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iol.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The terrible legacy of Transkei's KD Matanzima iol.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iol.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Almost 30 years since South Africa’s first democratic elections, apartheid can sometimes seem like a distant past. However, three new films interrupt both the temptation to forget and to selectively remember. ....