Wednesday, December 11, 2013

World Leaders Honor Mandela



Nelson Mandela was hailed as a "hero of our time" as tributes poured in from world leaders on the death of the man who led the triumphant fight against apartheid in South Africa and became that country's first black president.
Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president, said Mandela "achieved more than could be expected of any man.”  Today he's gone home, and we've lost one of the most influential, courageous and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this earth," Obama said at the White House.
South African President Jacob Zuma, announcing that Mandela died at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection, said, "Our people have lost a father.”
A memorial was service was held as part of an extended state funeral culminating in Mandela's burial on Sunday, 12-15-13 in the rural village of Qunu, where he spent his early childhood.  Before this, Mandela's body will lie in state for three days beginning Wednesday in the amphitheater of the Union Buildings in Pretoria where he was sworn in as president in 1994.


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