president mandela on his autobiography, a long walk to freedom. and in the book, you write and he writes that when mandela was a child in this community of qunu, that africans weren t afforded the privilege of having the title of land and owning that land. they had to pay rent to the government, annually. talk about what it meant to go back and his decision to be buried in qunu, and now to runner as the first black president, and with a state funeral and all the pomp and circumstance there in qunu? it is very significant and lovely. i mean, he loved those hills around where he was born. he never talked about religion much or western religion at all, and he talked about the ancestors. he talked about his people. he was, when his father died, when he was 8 or 9 years old, and his father had been a counselor to the king of the tembu, he was brought to what
apartheid powers had tried to play black tribes against each other, and people in the anc would say, we are not tembu, we are not pondos, we are not zulus, we are blacks. and mandela said, no, this culture is important to the people of south africa and we cannot reject it, we must reach out to those people. and it s come full circle when you think, here he is buried in qunu, adjacent to the village in which he was born, in the solemn ceremony that blends east and west, that he s finally come back to his resting place, he s come full circle, and it s a beautiful circle that we see and to echo christiane and cyril, it is, i believe, sets the stage for this extraordinary transformation in south africa that he has ushered in. rick stengal, and christiane amanpour, thanks so much for