Saturday, November 15, 2008

LAST RESPECTS......PART 1...  

An elderly woman is one 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."





Fomer South African President Thabo Mbeki (C) is pictured along with hundreds of people who paid their last respects in Johannesburg on November 15, 2008.



 
  
  
Mourners attend a memorial service for South African singing legend Miriam Makeba in Johannesburg, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. Makeba died last week in Italy after suffering a heart attack at the end of a concert.  

 
South African musician Hugh Masikela plays a trumpet in tribute to South African singing legend Miriam Makeba, affectionately known as "Mama Africa" seen on a background projection, at a memorial service in Johannesburg, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mourners attend a memorial service for South African singing legend Miriam Makeba in Johannesburg, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008.  



 
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 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."
















Miriam Makeba with Hugh Masekela- South Africa freedom song



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