“Nothing’s being closed: commercial flights will continue as normal,” an East London airport official told Grocott’s Mail on Sunday 8 December.
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Thousands of mourners are expected to be bused into Grahamstown next weekend. The city will be the only venue in the region for big-screen live coverage of the Qunu funeral of Nelson Mandela on Sunday 15 December.
“In the valleys of Mbashe, in the rivers and in the flowers, in all the world there is sadness.” Bishop Ebenezer Ntlali spoke in rich imagery and metaphors as he addressed a crowd of around 600 staff and students at a gathering at the Rhodes University clock tower on Friday 6 December to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela.
Around 600 people – most of them Rhodes University staff and their families, and students, gathered in front of the clock tower at 11am on Friday 6 December to mark Nelson Mandela’s death.
Former President Nelson Mandela will be buried at Qunu in the Eastern Cape on 15 December said President Jacob Zuma at a press conference held at the SABC.
At a confidential Council meeting held at City Hall on Friday 6 December, councillors decided to suspend the Municipal Manager Dr Pravine Naidoo for a period of one month.
Rare letters written by John Fairbairn and Thomas Pringle were sold for record prices in an online auction on 28 November.
The following release was published by Rhodes University Media Relations Officer Zamuxolo Matiwana on Friday morning 6 December. Rhodes University mourns and lowers its flag on the passing of Tatomkhulu Rolihlahla Nelson Dalibhunga Mandela.
“Rarely in history do we observe the extent and kind of grief that we see for Tatomkhulu Mandela,” said Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor, Dr Saleem Badat, quoted in a media statement from the University this morning.
Citizens of Makana will unite with the rest of the country as we mourn the passing of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. President Jacob Zuma announced last night that the beloved founding President of our democratic nation, has died. He made the announcement on national radio and television shortly before midnight, telling a shocked nation that Mandela had passed away peacefully in the company of his family at his home around 8.50pm on Thursday 5 December 2013.