South Africa honors its heroes disappeared. The country commemorates on Friday the first anniversary of the death of Nelson Mandela. Many prayers and celebrations punctuate the day.
The main ceremony was held in Pretoria at the seat of government. On the platform including the widow of Nobel Peace Prize, Graça Machel. "Why we honor his life?" She said, "it's everyone to give his answer, as he made clear in his 90th anniversary: it is up to everyone to do something to close the divisions are still in us. "
After 67 years of political struggle and activism, Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95 years. That was a year ago to the day in Johannesburg. His body rests in Qunu, his boyhood town in the south of the country. Only absentee ceremonies, the current President Jacob Zuma, due to official visit to Beijing.
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