Nelson Mandela

After the lying in state, the focus of mourning will move from urban to rural areas. Follow Channel 4 News as we tweet, blog and report on rural South Africa’s goodbye to Nelson Mandela #TheRoadToQunu

In July 1983 Nelson Mandela celebrated his 65th birthday. ITN’s Mike Hanna spoke with anti-apartheid campaigners Helen Suzman and Winnie Mandela about the renewed calls for his release.

Nelson Mandela’s coffin arrives at the Union Buildings in the capital where his remains will lie in state for three days, with huge crowds expected to pay their respects.

The international sign language community is demanding an apology from the South African government for the “fake” interpreter on stage during the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.

Ronnie Kasrils, a former South African government minister, says the crowd reaction to President Jacob Zuma at the Nelson Mandela memorial shows many people do not want him as leader any longer.

With the world’s leaders looking on, it was a chance for South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma to shine. So why did some of his countrymen choose to publicly humiliate him?

In 1961, Nelson Mandela gave his first TV interview to ITN reporter Brian Widlake. At the time, he was a wanted man, and and was speaking not long after a brutal government crackdown.

Barack Obama praises Nelson Mandela as “the last great liberator of the 20th century”, and Jacob Zuma is booed, at the former South African president’s memorial service in Johannesburg.

The prime minister says he has been inspired by the ambitions of Nelson Mandela and the causes the former South African president fought for.

He was a fitness fanatic, a master of disguise, a ballroom dancer and a trained guerrilla. And Nelson wasn’t even his real name…

Jon Snow speaks to soul singer Simphiwe Dana and actor Tony Kgoroge, asking if the political legacy of Nelson Mandela continues under President Zuma, who was booed on appearing at Mandela’s memorial.

Jon Snow speaks to some of the thousands of people who make their way to his huge open-air memorial Johannesburg, including a man imprisoned alongside him in Robben Island, and a five-year old boy.

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan tells Jon Snow he hopes one of Nelson Mandelas legacies will be a “robust African civil society” that believes in forgiveness and reconciliation.

Departmental question time is suspended in the House of Commons to allow MPs, including the party leaders, to honour the memory of former South African president Nelson Mandela.