Qunu Celebrates Life of Its Favorite Son

Driving through South Africa's Eastern Cape to Qunu was like being in a constant carwash, with five days of sheet-like rain turning asphalt into puddles and dirt roads into rivers. The local people attributed this highly unseasonal and stupendous amount of water to Nelson Mandela's death, as in his Xhosa culture rains before a funeral mean the heavens are preparing to greet a great man. Others on a journey spanning more than 1,400 kilometers south from Johannesburg said that the...

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