What makes Qunu so breathtakingly brilliant?
Winnie Mandela and her legal team had spent years arguing her claim to Nelson Mandela’s former Qunu homestead. Now, that battle looks to be all said and done.
Winnie Madikizela Mandela has lost her appeal in her quest to get access to Nelson Mandela’s Qunu homestead. The courts have spoken.
Nothing is sacred to some people…
Nelson Mandela’s burial in a private ceremony at the family gravesite in Qunu followed a moving funeral service where over 4 000 mourners gathered earlier to pray and pay tribute to the man described by US President Barack Obama as “the last great liberator of the twentieth century”.
The Eastern Cape villages of Qunu and Mvezo are in the spotlight as battle commences between Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla and the rest of his family about where to bury Madiba.
As former South African president Nelson Mandela spends his third day in a critical condition, his relatives gather in his hometown Qunu to “discuss delicate matters”
Young Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela attends a missionary school, like all high-born Thembu boys of his age. However, his life changes when the Chief Jongintaba Dalindyebo takes him up to his Great Place to become a royal ward.