The calm above South Africa's storm
Twenty-four hours on the ground here in South Africa tells me one exceptional thing.
Poet and “praise singer” Zolani Mkiva will be performing at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. He gave Jon Snow a sample of what he will be saying on Tuesday.
With preparations for Nelson Mandela’s memorial service underway, Mac Maharaj, former fellow prisoner and President Zuma’s spokesman, talks about the arrangements and what Madiba might have said.
Former US president Jimmy Carter and Lakhdar Brahimi, UN special envoy on Syria, talk about the Elders, a group of global leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela to work for peace and human rights.
Parties, flowers, prayers – tributes pour in for Nelson Mandela from across the world as South Africa begins a day of remembrance for Madiba.
How the great leader used great sport to unite his rainbow nation. Keme Nzerem reports.
Nelson Mandela presided over the introduction of South Africa’s constitution – the most progressive in the world. But his time as president was not one of unqualified social and economic success.
Twenty-four hours on the ground here in South Africa tells me one exceptional thing.
Journalist Tim Lambon was being held in Liberia on espionage charges by Charles Taylor when Nelson Mandela intervened, asking President Taylor to release him. He recalls his phonecall from Mandela.
As South Africans mourn Nelson Mandela’s death, they are also gathering to sing, dance and celebrate a life well lived, as Jonathan Miller reports.
People sing, dance and sign condolence boards as they gather overnight to pay tribute at Nelson Mandela’s home in Houghton, Johannesburg.
It is almost 20 years since Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa – but could his death cause the rainbow nation he created to tear apart at the seams?
Costs, travel logistics, unfinished stadia, and the prospect of civil unrest have cast a pall over the 2014 Brazil World Cup. But such concerns may be put aside when the draw begins later today for the biggest footballing event on earth.
On his trips to London, Nelson Mandela praised the UK for its help in the struggle. But did the British state really come to his aid during all those years in captivity?
Nelson Mandela meant many things to many different people around the world. Channel 4 News joined people paying their respects in London to ask what the “father of a nation” means to them.
Watch an extended online edition of Channel 4 News at midday covering the loss of the former South African president and anti-apartheid revolutionary, Nelson Mandela, who has died at the age of 95.