QUNU, South Africa (AP) -- Anti-apartheid champion Nelson Mandela was buried in his home village on Sunday after a funeral that mixed ancient tribal rituals with a display of the might of the new, ...

QUNU, SOUTH AFRICA - DECEMBER 15: Karlind Govender and his wife Katharina, of Cape Town overlook the burial site as a 21 gun salute is fired in honour of former South African President Nelson Mandela ...

The funeral of former South African leader Nelson Mandela will take place on Dec. 15 — a Sunday — in the Eastern Cape village of Qunu, South African President Jacob Zuma has said. Mandela grew up in ...

QUNU, South Africa -- Songs, speeches and the boom of artillery rang across Nelson Mandela's home village during his funeral Sunday as a tribal chief adorned in a leopard skin declared: "A great tree ...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela reacts at the Mandela foundation, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday June 2, 2009, during a meeting with a group of American and South African ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Flags were lowered to half-staff across South Africa and people in black townships, in upscale mostly white suburbs and in the country's vast rural grasslands commemorated Nelson ...

Pretoria : Nelson Mandela’s remains were on Saturday flown to his childhood village of Qunu for burial tomorrow, bringing down the curtain on ten days of national mourning and global tributes for the ...

South Africans are expected to assemble in churches, mosques and halls on Sunday for a national day of prayer and reflection honoring Nelson Mandela. The former president and anti-apartheid icon died ...

Update, 4:08 p.m. After cancelling his Friday flight and suggesting he was snubbed from his close friend Nelson Mandela's funeral by the government, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has changed his mind, ...

Obama explained that Mandela’s death should prompt everyone to reflect on his legacy. “With honesty, regardless of our station or circumstance, we must ask: How well have I applied his lessons in my ...