SECRETARY-GENERAL


Africa and forge reconciliation. In his political practice, we find the true sense of tolerance, respect and understanding worth emulating. I wish to join Commonwealth Parliamentarians in saluting the South African Government, the South African Political Parties, and the people of South Africa for uniting to put on a wonderful and fitting State funeral ceremony for a statesman and icon of African democracy. I was touched not only by the huge gathering of world leaders who turned up to pay tribute to the beloved son of Africa, but also by the State and traditional pomp that showed the extent of Mandela’s deep roots in his culture and his people. I was also touched by the statements made by several Heads of State. The


President of Tanzania, H.E Jakaya Kikwete, MP, mentioned an event during the struggle that, while travelling, Mandela had left his boots behind at the House of a former Tanzanian Minister, Nsilo Swai, in Moshi, Tanzania. The President


accounted how Tanzania, under Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, had contributed to the liberation and anti-apartheid struggle in Southern African in the 1960s, 1970s,


VIEW FROM THE


Mourners leaving the viewing of Nelson Mandela’s body in December 2013.


and 1980s, albeit of its state of poor economic development. The life and death of Nelson Mandela has now left behind in South Africa and


Commonwealth gallery


Parliamentary officials from Canada, India and Nigeria pictured with the CPA Secretary-General (seated centre) and members of the CPA Secretariat staff in London.


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