Nelson Mandela

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Events across South Africa pay tribute to Nelson Mandela’s anti-apartheid struggle one year on from his death.

Lawyers investigating the 2012 Marikana massacre say Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s deputy president, could face charges at the International Criminal Court following the killings of 34 miners.

As David Moyes licks his wounds, a victim of his predecessor’s success, Channel 4 News would like him to take heart – there are many who have been forced to live in the shadow of “giants”.

Family members of the late Nelson Mandela accept the division of his £2.5m estate. Mandela’s will was read out in public on Monday.

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Nelson Mandela is buried in his hometown of Qunu, following a funeral service attended by 4,500 people, at which he was praised for teaching the world the lessons of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Nelson Mandela’s coffin is taken from Pretoria to its final resting place in his hometown of Qunu, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.

The African National Congress (ANC) gives Nelson Mandela a solemn send-off, as his body is flown to Qunu for his funeral on Sunday.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela’s close friend and fellow anti-apartheid hero, will not attend the former South African president’s funeral as he says he was not told he would be welcome.

On the road to Nelson Mandela’s final resting place in his birth town of Qunu, Inigo Gilmore visits a small town in the Free State where black and white are still divided.

Jonathan Miller met the late ANC elder statesman Henry Mkoti, who was locked up with Nelson Mandela for over a decade. Channel 4 News replays that interview recorded a year before he died in 2012.

As Channel 4 News documents #TheRoadToQunu, travelling across South Africa as the country says goodbye to Nelson Mandela, Inigo Gilmore reports on the people he encounters.

In February 1986 journalists investigating reports that the jailed ANC leader was having a check-up at Cape Town’s Medipark clinic caught – by accident – the first glimpse of him for 24 years.

The sign language interpreter who sparked outrage in the deaf community says he suffered a kind of schizophrenic episode during the Mandela memorial, while the ANC confirms they have hired him before.