JOHANNESBURG – Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu changed course Saturday night and announced plans to attend the funeral of anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela after all. Spokesman Roger Friedman did not ...

JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela's casket was draped in a lion skin, an ox was ritually slaughtered and a family elder kept talking to the body's spirit: The state funeral for South Africa's ...

State Department contract awards were posted this week for “Transportation services in support of Mandela Funeral” and “Accommodation in support of the Nelson Mandela funeral in South Africa.” The ...

Update, 4:08 p.m. After cancelling his Friday flight and suggesting he was snubbed from his close friend Nelson Mandela's funeral by the government, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has changed his mind, ...

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JOHANNESBURG: More than 70 leaders from across the world, some of them locked in enmity, are flying to South Africa for memorials to Nelson Mandela that will hail one of humanity’s great peacemakers, ...

Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will not attend the funeral of his long-time friend Nelson Mandela on Sunday because he did not receive credentials, his spokesman said, ...