Funeral or Farce?

[Horus]

Breweries and **** ups come to mind today, what am I talking about? Well actually Nelson Mandela’s funeral, what a farce. It looked more like an Oscars ceremony with every mouth on legs vying for centre stage. It was very important for tradition that he was buried before midday, yet they allowed rambling speakers like the ex president of Zambia Kenneth Kaunda to take up valuable time and hog the limelight as he rambled on about the Boer’s. He was never one to use one word when sixty odd would do and he behaved like a buffoon as he danced up to the stage and started to sing a few lines from the song “Tiyende Pamodzi”his personal little ditty that only someone of my age living in Zambia would have recognised and it fell as flat as a lead balloon, I was waiting for the man with the crook to pull him off stage. I have just heard the phrase “the song has ended but the melody lingers on” by another speaker, who the hell thought that one up? and now we have a woman asking that the priest “gives us as brief a sermon as possible” that about sums up the lack of any dignity to this ceremony.
The final insult must be Cyril Ramaposa reading a list of people who have to stay in the marquee and who go to the graveside, this will take another ten minutes, surely this should have been sorted out during the week? 15 minutes late already and still counting.

I know this song Tiyende Pamodzi by heart as my then young daughter would come home singing it after being brain washed by having to sing this every day in primary school, ah fond memories, I will play it to her later today and she if she still remembers it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvGE-ZO_h5M

[LovelyLadyLux]

Everything about Mandela's funeral here seemed centered around Obama taking a selfie and shaking Raul Castro's hand. Speculation re: USA and Cuba has been off the charts since he did that.

Personally I'm inclined to believe that Obama was just glad handing and probably didn't even know who Raul Castro was.

In the snippets I've seen it sure seemed that Mandela's funeral was not a somber affair.