The day now since that announcement and Nelson Mandelas house. He was taking to the streets in south africa to pay tribute to nelson and get out. Indeed the state they were still trying to come to terms with the death of disco boogie death not they say theyve accepted teased and not the umpiring to carry him now we know that he will be getting on the fifteenth of this and that in his hometown of london. What would happen on the latin from the heavens to the thirteenth. Hes one one nineteen states in pretoria. And on the tenth of peace and that it will be a national day of mourning and this sunday the eighth of december. It will be a national day of prayer and reflection isnt a consumer has called on South Africans to use this day to reflect on the night of nelson and data what he has made two South Africans and one he has made to the wolves. Soak the announcement was made last night this morning people were still coming to tennis not be getting to be any the father of the nation the ci
Family. Its white obligation i have for it. Freddy of family updates at the venetian. I chatted the iata. Offer to south africa where all South Africans. I get. South africans together this friday to mourn the loss of a man who changed the nation and inspired generations. Nelson mandela has died after a long battle with the recurring not long in the us at the age of ninety five. Thank you so much for joining us for fools think im only home this friday people around the world are paying their respects to Nelson Mandela the ninety five year old died thursday evening at his home in johannesburg was battling a reoccurring a long illness. Mandela had been receiving intensive care at his home in this friday everyone from heads of state to people on the street are remembering mandela was both inspirational and controversial. Kyle brown takes a look back now the life of the us mandela when the former trend state eritrean july eighteen nineteen eighteen. Nelson mandela was meant to become a tri
Both inspirational and controversial. And ray brown looks back at the life of Nelson Mandela. Born in the former trance state territory on july 18, 1918, Nelson Mandela was meant to become a tribal chief like his father. Instead he became a lawyer and the first in the first lack Legal Practice in johannesburg. He joined the congress in 19 in in his practice, he was exposed to the inhumanitys of apartheid on a daily basis. He decided to fight back. Opting for nonviolence as a strategy. He was first arrested in 1956 and prosecuted on treason charges, which were later dropped. Nancyars later he married winnie. S when he there are many people who feel it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and nonviolence against the government. On these savage attacks. On unarmed, defenseless people. He founded a military offshoot of the anc. He was arrested again in 1962 and tried for his antiapartheid activity. Mandela when sentenced to life in prison in 1964. He would end up spending
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