Mandela Remembered

Democratic South Africa is in the midst of ten days of mourning for its first president Nelson Mandela. The former Robben Island prisoner will be buried in the village of Qunu in the Eastern Cape, where he was born.

At a Johannesburg memorial service on Tuesday 'Irish President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina attended ... as did Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, the North's deputy first minister, and former Irish President Mary Robinson.'

Nelson Mandela during his visit to Ireland in July 1990

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