South Africa holds state funeral for Nelson Mandela

JOHANNESBURG/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 draped in animal skin declared: “A great tree has fallen.” South Africa was saying goodbye for the last time to the man who reconciled the country in its most vulnerable [...] South Africa holds state funeral for Nelson Mandela | www.limit.ws