Three family graves at Qunu, home of critically ill former president Nelson Mandela, had no human remains when they were exhumed earlier this week.
The Eastern Cape High Court has granted an application brought by the Mandela family to force Mandla Mandela to return the remains he moved to Mvezo.
Mandla Mandela’s lawyers have indicated he will not oppose a court application for him to return the remains of family members he moved to Mvezo.
Former president Nelson Mandela’s condition has improved and is now stable, but still critical, says the presidency.
President Jacob Zuma opened the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union conference with a rousing rendition of a song about Mandela.
A few cars have been seen at the Mandela family gravesite in Qunu, while the relatives called an urgent meeting in the village to brief the elders.
Close relatives of former president Nelson Mandela and chiefs of the Abathembu royal family have gathered at his home in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape.
Former president Nelson Mandela’s influence transformed the village, which, in turn, has cast its brightest son in a biblical light.
Rural hospitals are struggling across South Africa – that they function at all is too often not thanks to the state, but the work of Good Samaritans.
Former president Nelson Mandela will be moving back to his home in Qunu in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday, President Jacob Zuma has announced.
Looking back to Mandela’s childhood, it is clear how far the continent has come.
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/ 8 December 2011
Five young artists are gaining valuable artistic and business skills near Mandela’s childhood home.
Former president Nelson Mandela is healthy and at his home in Qunu in the Eastern Cape, his grandson Mandla Mandela said on Friday.
Former president Nelson Mandela has flown to his birthplace in his first trip outside Johannesburg since leaving hospital in January.
Nelson Mandela’s vision for a South Africa beyond apartheid is what gave birth to the transition to democracy, President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday.
Guests cheered, a choir sang and a smiling Nelson Mandela welcomed hundreds of well-wishers on Saturday as SA formally celebrated his 90th birthday.
Gardeners mowed the lawn outside the museum honouring Nelson Mandela on Thursday, while a work crew laid new tarmac on the road outside his home.
Tributes poured in for South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela who turned 87 on Monday.
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/ 15 January 2005
Hundreds of people, including President Thabo Mbeki, converged on Qunu in the Eastern Cape on Saturday to support former president Nelson Mandela at the funeral of his son, Makgatho, who died of Aids. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Aids activist Zackie Achmat and businessman Patrice Motsepe were among those who went to bid farewell to Makgatho.
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/ 20 December 2004
Former president Nelson Mandela’s annual Christmas party for children was called off on Sunday amid a crush of pushing and shoving children and parents jostling for position in the queue for presents. The organisers had bargained on between 15 000 and 20 000 guests, but made provision for an extra 10 000, said Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund spokesperson, Archie Tsoku.
The hamlet where Nelson Mandela spent his boyhood may have attracted big businesses keen to link up to South Africa’s most famous name but it still faces huge social and economic problems that bedevil thousands of villages in the country.
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/ 10 December 2003
Organisers of this year’s Nelson Mandela children’s Christmas party announced on Tuesday that there would be no crowd pullers among the entertainers this year. The Nelson Mandela’s Children’s Fund is to assist with arrangements following last year’s disaster, when scores of children were injured in an uncontrolled crowd situation.