Nairobi — "The South African loss is not a singular one, even in death; Tata Madiba has united the whole world in his honour in the same spirit of Ubuntu that he preached." "Never in history has the world come together as is today, to celebrate a man."
Those were the simple but powerful words of Ratubatsi Super Moloi the South African High Commissioner to Kenya as he fondly remembered the African icon, Nelson Mandela. Moloi spoke at a requiem mass held in Nairobi on Tuesday that brought together South Africans living in Kenya and dignitaries who all mourned the anti-apartheid statesman.
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