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Nelson Mandela memorial service in South Africa (15 images)

Nearly 100 heads of state and roughly 100,000 mourners attended the service for Mandela who died last week at the age of 95.



Audience members listen as Archbishop Desmond Tutu delivers the key-note speech at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela held at The Nelson Mandela Foundation Centre of Memory in Johannesburg, South Africa, December 9, 2013. Mandela, former South African president and an icon of the anti-apartheid movement, died on December, 5, at age 95 after complications from a recurring lung infection. UPI/Charlie Shoemaker
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Audience members listen as Archbishop Desmond Tutu delivers the key-note speech at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela held at The Nelson Mandela Foundation Centre of Memory in Johannesburg, South Africa, December 9, 2013. Mandela, former South African president and an icon of the anti-apartheid movement, died on December, 5, at age 95 after complications from a recurring lung infection. UPI/Charlie Shoemaker
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits the Nelson Mandela Foundation before a memorial service for Nelson Mandela lead by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Johannesburg, South Africa, December 9, 2013. Mandela, former South African president and an icon of the anti-apartheid movement, died on December, 5, at age 95 after complications from a recurring lung infection. UPI/Charlie Shoemaker
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