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at the podium having trouble with the transmission there. at the podium right now, the political activist with nelson mandela in robben island. [ inaudible ] he was sentenced to prison in robben island. he was released after negotiations between the african national congress and the government. [ cheers ] ....
Africa, and then his body will be taken to pretoria where he will lie in state for three days before the funeral on sunday in his homeland. let s go back. a dignified and fitting memorial service in honor of our father, nelson mandela. winnie mandela there, former wife of nelson mandela. and his current wife, his second wife there, as well. third wife, excuse me. we applaud you and thank you for that. on behalf of the president, i welcome all of you who have travelled from all corners of ....
go ahead, terry. reporter: i just wanted to let you know that the crowd is following this with incredible attention at the same time as byron pointed out in the upper deck which is sheltered from the rain as they re preparing meals and living today they have come here for the duration, to celebrate this man. and to listen to what their leaders and the world leaders have to say. this is a moment to take ownership. they re grading these guys, no question about it. you can sense the response that each of these speaker get as they come to the podium and as they leave. so it s a soccer stadium, a moment of celebration for the life of nelson mandela. and it s a political moment, too, for the people of south africa. let s try again to listen to the former prisoner with nelson ....
. from all over the world, we have well over 91 countries that have sent delegations. deputy over nelson mandela and the anc. thank you for being here. a sort of favorite of nelson mandela s. nigeria, argentina become quite a wealthy businessman in africa. the question, will he one day be president of that country. many will continue acknowledging them as they move on. with the view of catching up on lost time, we are now going to call upon madiba s grandchildren, madiba has 18 ....
did you see the tension in the relationship in we talked about with president bush the differences over the war in iraq. he also was persistent in pressing both president clinton and president bush. he was constantly reminding american presidents they had to do more for africa. yes. it s something. when we were talking about the special relationship between mandela and clinton, i remember being this when president mandela was trying to get president clinton to come to the peace talks on burundi. he was a mediator. he wanted president clinton to come. the national security adviser, sandy berger, didn t think it rose to a priority for the preside president, it came to negotiations. he was very much opposed to it. clinton couldn t resist mandela. mandela asked, clinton was going to do. it sure enough, three months, four months later, clinton was ....