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The remains of Nelson Mandela are flown to the province of Eastern Cape, a day before his state funeral is held in Qunu.
2013-12-14

Nobel prize winner, anti-Apartheid activist, and former South African president, Nelson Mandela, dies at age 95.
2013-12-5

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is now in a "permanent vegetative state" and doctors have advised his family to turn off his life support machine.
2013-07-4

South African President Jacob Zuma cancels his scheduled trip to Mozambique after a visit to the critically ill former president Nelson Mandela in a Pretoria hospital.
2013-06-26

Among the foreigners at the funeral are Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, former Apartheid-era South African President F. W. de Klerk, former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former United States Vice President Dick Cheney, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard and current Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
2013-04-17

Former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela is hospitalised with a lung infection.
2013-03-28

Former South African President and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, 94, in still-fragile health, is released from the hospital in Pretoria, South Africa to receive continuing at-home care. He had had his longest period of hospitalization (more than 2 weeks) there since his 1990 release from prison, as the result of a gallstone removal operation and a lung infection. [http:--news.msn.com-world-update-mandela-released-from-hospital (MSN)]date=April 2020
2012-12-26

Cape Town is to name a street after former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela.
2010-12-26

Nelson Mandela cancels his much anticipated public appearance at the opening ceremony due to the death of his great-granddaughter on her way home from the opening concert last night.
2010-06-11

South African opera star Siphiwo Ntshebe, chosen by Nelson Mandela to sing "Hope" at the opening ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup next month, dies suddenly aged 34 after contracting meningitis.
2010-05-25