Nelson Mandela: Rest well "Tata" father of the nation.

Mourners sing and dance to celebrate Nelson Mandela, in the street outside his old house in Soweto, Johannesburg.

We don't know if we should come along or to swallow our sweet-bitter salty tears and make everything sad and happy to wait and nurse the pain death has caused. A man who came to the world and made things better with the energy of a bulldog in which nothing under the mikky way could stop it.

For you only I dedicate this comments from South Africans more than a thousand miles away from "digtriad" who could feel your impact, truly you are Tara Madiba: father of the nation

Emma Burress was 8-years-old
when Nelson Mandela became
South Africa's president.
She said, "I remember watching the whole inauguration ceremony on TV with my grandmother."

Stefan Fortmann had just turned
two. Neither grew up in a society
separated by Apartheid - but
instead in a country reconciled by
Mandela.

"He created a great, what he called
the Rainbow Nation where all
people are equal and the blacks
and the whites come together to
form one nation," said Fortmann.

Burress added, "He changed our
country in ways I could never
understand, even still. And the
reach of that will go on, forever."

Fortmann is a student at Elon and
Burress works in the Global
Education Center. Both of them are thousands of miles from South
Africa, but they say they still have
a close connection with the man
they call the father of their nation.

"I'm definitely proud to call myself
a South African. I'll always call
myself a South African no matter
what happens to our country," said
Fortmann.
"I absolutely love it and will always
call it home and definitely proud to be associated with Mandela."

"He was a gift -to us and to the
whole world and it's a privilege to
have been part of the community
that he loved," said Burress.
Mandela will be honored with a
memorial service Tuesday at the
Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium
- the same place he made his last
public appearance in 2010.

Mandela will be buried Sunday the 8th of December, 2013. President Obama, the First
Lady, and Former Presidents
George Bush and Bill Clinton other great dignitaries will across the world and shores of Africa will be in attendance.