South African great leader Nelson Mandela said goodbye this world, big guns fired a salute in the village where Nelson Mandela grew up and military servicemen marched stiffly behind his casket on a winding dirt road Sunday as South Africa said goodbye for the last time to the man who reconciled the country in its extremely weak period.
According to news; few thousand visitors, some vocalizing and dancing, gathered in a huge marquee at the family consensus of the anti-apartheid leader, who passed away Dec. 5 at the age of 95 after a long sickness. When the burial service started, they sang the nationwide anthem in an emotional rendition in which some mourners placed fists over their chests.
Nelson Mandela’s portrait looked over the assembly in the white marquee from behind a bank of 95 candles representing each year of his extraordinary life. Mandela’s casket, draped in the national flag, was placed on a carpet of cow skins below a lectern where speakers delivered eulogies.
Cyril Ramaphosa deputy president of the ruling African National Congress said; “I think all of us will agree today the person who lies here is South Africa’s greatest son,”.
Matanzima said; “You did a great job in taking care of our father. We can’t thank you enough for that”.
According to report; head Ngangomhlaba Matanzima, an agent of Mandela’s family, thanked military medical practitioners who were part of the health group that took care of Mandela throughout his hospital resides and at his home in the last months of his life. He inquired them to stand up. Mourners applauded.
Mandela expended 27 years in prison as a detainee from apartheid and then appeared to lead a dainty transition to democracy when many South Africans dreaded that the homeland would sink into all-out racial conflict. He became leader in the first all-race elections in 1994.
South Africa Holds State Funeral for Nelson Mandela
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