Monday, November 17, 2008

FAREWELL....PART 2...  

A father and his child are some of the hundreds of people who paid their last respects in Johannesburg, on November 15, 2008 to music legend and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba, whose death last weekend plunged South Africa into mourning. The public memorial in a Johannesburg concert hall drew some of South Africa's most prominent politicians, musicians and artists who used song and poetry to hail the woman known fondly as "Mama Africa."


 
A mother cuddles her baby as part of some hundreds of people who paid their last respects in Johannesburg, on November 15, 2008.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Two unidentified women along with hundreds of people paid their last respects in Johannesburg, on November 15, 2008 to music legend and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba.
 
 
 
 
Lindelane, great grandchild of South African singer Miriam Makeba, bids her farewell during a memorial service in Johannesburg November 15, 2008. Makeba ,better known as "Mama Africa" one of Africa's best known voices and a champion of the fight against apartheid during three decades in exile.

 
South African jazz great Hugh Masekela performed a mournful solo of one her songs, as hundreds of people paid their last respects in Johannesburg, on November 15, 2008.

 
  
Mourners take pictures at the end of South African singer Miriam Makeba's memorial service in Johannesburg November 15, 2008.

 
 




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