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Ffi Nelson Mandela won't be buried for a while yet, but today the world | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
said goodbye to him. Was the spirit of reconciliation all too strong to | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
prevent old enemies making up? President Obama and the Cuban leader | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
shook hands. We discuss the significance of that handshake with | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
the former Foreign Secretary Lord Owen. It will come to more and more | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
of us, and there is no cure. He said on one occasion this is actually | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
happening to me isn't it? And he used to describe feeling as if he | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
only had half a head. We talk among others to Sir Terry Prachett as he | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
feels dementia taken a ever-stronger grip on him. And is a super-max | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
prison any place for a person who is mentally ill. We report from | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
California. They know that this is inconsistent with mental health | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
care, it will make people worse. It wasn't the final farewell but it was | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
perhaps the last hurrah, the Johannesburg rain late, and apart | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
from the boos that greeted the current South African President were | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
good-natured and even joyous, the attendance of dozens of world | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
leaders saw the memorial celebration for Nelson Mandela bounce around the | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
world. We were there. It is high summer in Johannesburg, though you | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
wouldn't know it. But they came even so, not to mourn but to celebrate | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
Mandela's life. In that life the private and the public were | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
interwoven. Winnie Mandela has led her whole life in the public gaze, | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
she took her place alongside 100 foreign political leaders. Four | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
British prime ministers came, past and present. And celebrities from | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
showbiz, such was the breadth of Mandela's reach. Long live the | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
spirit of Nelson Mandela, long live! Long live. Viva Nelson Mandela, | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
viva. It was easy to forget in this atmosphere that there was family at | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
the heart of this, the eyes of the world intruding on their private | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
grief. Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, rarely left his side in the | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
last months, she seemed utterly striken. The two women who loved | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Mandela not as a leader but a husband, were united in their loss. | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
I apologise for the rain, in our African tradition, when it rains and | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
you are buried it means that the gates of heaven are most probably | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
open as well. Mandela liberated his people and gave them their voice. Mr | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
Robert Mugabe. They cheered Robert Mugabe. But George W Bush whose Iraq | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
War Mandela condemned was briefly booed. Tony Blair sat quietly at a | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
distance. Barack Obama's sudden appearance lifted the mood | :03:42. | :03:51. | |
dramatically. He stopped to shake the hand of Raul Castro of Cuba. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
This apparently friendly exchange after 50 years of enmity. He seemed | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
to identify personally with the experience of many black people here | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
and he quoted Mandela liberally. And we know he shared with millions of | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
black and coloured South Africans the anger bourne of a thousand | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
sleights, a thousand inat thissingties, a thousand | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
unremembered moments, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
people, he said. In strong uncompromising language he laid down | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
this challenge to political leaders both at home and assembled here | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
today. There are too many people who happily embrace Madiba's legacy of | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
reconciliation but passionately resist even modest reforms that | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
would challenge poverty and growing inequality. There are too many | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
leaders who claim solidarity with Madiba's struggle for | :04:54. | :04:55. |