Mandela Remembrance Walk

Mandela Remembrance walk was held today to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of the late President Nelson Mandela who passed away at his Houghton home in Johannesburg on the 5th December,2014.

The remembrance walk, held under the theme "Mandela's Legacy Lives on", aimed at bringing people together in looking back at the values taught by Mandela. The 6-kilometer walk started at the Freedom Park , Pretoria then proceeded through Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Services ,then Madiba Street right into Nelson Mandela Drive and left into Stanza Bopape Street ending at the Union Buildings.

The walk was led by Guateng Premier David Makhura also present were African National Congress,(ANC) talwrt Andrew Mlangebi, Gauteng Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation MEC Molebatsi Bopape, Ahmed Kathrada, Sophie de Bruyn and Andrew Mlangeni.

After completing their walk, members of the Nelson Mandela family, together with struggle stalwarts and government officials laid their wreaths at the Mandela statute in front of the Union Buildings, the official seat of the South African government in Pretoria.

Graca Machel, the wife of the late former President spoke after the walk at the Union Building.