The anti-apartheid leader's funeral got under way about 1 a.m. local time on Sunday at a family grave site in his hometown of Qunu in Eastern Cape province. Local dignitaries and international VIP's ...

JOHANNESBURG - An ox will be slaughtered, the deceased will be wrapped in a leopard skin and a family elder will keep talking to the body's spirit. The state funeral for Nelson Mandela on Sunday will ...

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 ...

QUNU, South Africa – Leaders and family members on Sunday praised South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela as a man and former president who united and freed his nation by embracing ...

QUNU, South Africa – Nelson Mandela was buried Sunday in the African ground he loved after a funeral ceremony that included a 21-gun salute and fly-overs by military aircraft as well as a eulogy by a ...

Mandela's casket, covered by a national flag, was transported on a gun carriage to the tent. Following the funeral, Mandela's coffin was borne by gun carriage and military pallbearers for the short ...

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-- Big guns fired a salute in the rural village where Nelson Mandela grew up and military servicemen marched stiffly behind his casket on a winding dirt road Sunday as South Africa ...