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Soldiers fill empty seats at Nelson Mandela's funeral ...
The Daily Mail Online ^ | December 15, 2013 | James Rush

Posted on 12/15/2013 8:26:51 AM PST by Uncle Chip

Seats were still being filled up more than an hour into the funeral service of Nelson Mandela today as soldiers moved in to occupy empty chairs.....

Empty seats however could still be seen in parts of the marquee more than an hour into the event ...

Elsewhere, stadiums where the funeral was being screened were left unfilled this morning.

According to IOL News, the Lucas Moripe stadium, in Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria, was virtually empty.

The stadium was one of a number of venues across South Africa showing live footage of the funeral.

Ellis Park Stadium, in Johannesburg, also reportedly remained empty shortly before 8am while Orlando Stadium had few people in at 7.45am.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mandela
So much for the funeral of the century --
1 posted on 12/15/2013 8:26:51 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
James Rush is obviously a racist white man. The nerve of it all: reporting the truth to take some of the shine off the St. Nelson send-off!
2 posted on 12/15/2013 8:29:30 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman

The REAL truth about Nelson Mandela is not very pretty.


3 posted on 12/15/2013 8:31:36 AM PST by 2harddrive
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To: Uncle Chip

I guess Mandela isn’t rising from the dead. The way the liberals talk about him, I thought for sure that would happen.


4 posted on 12/15/2013 8:33:07 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Uncle Chip

May we all REST IN PEACE from now on that mandela has been buried.
What a jamboreee for a racist communist.
I had 10 days of my wife moaning because her TV programs were canceled because of mandela.


5 posted on 12/15/2013 8:43:50 AM PST by Christian1
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To: Christian1

There will be no rest. Try to prepare your wife for what is coming:

Mandela the Memorial

Mandela the Musical

Mandela the Movie

Mandela the Opera

Mandela the Movie II

Mandela .....

and then Winnie will get sick.


6 posted on 12/15/2013 8:57:17 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Yep


7 posted on 12/15/2013 8:58:53 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Uncle Chip

They were using stadiums across the country?

Strange since the service was really only being held in one. What was happening in the other stadiums? Chicken fights?

No one will ever know I guess, since nobody showed up.


8 posted on 12/15/2013 9:00:08 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Uncle Chip

I was snarking about how many US schools will be renamed for Mandela and somebody posted a list of how many ALREADY existed.


9 posted on 12/15/2013 9:00:26 AM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: Uncle Chip

You could always make it up to her by buying her
a Mandela 50,000 mile radial necklace, comes in
black or white sidewall. Buy three get a fourth FREE.


10 posted on 12/15/2013 9:03:58 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: nascarnation
I was snarking about how many US schools will be renamed for Mandela and somebody posted a list of how many ALREADY existed.

Wow, and to think I didn't notice.

(source: http://compatiblewithjoy-trisomy18.blogspot.com/2013/07/cooking-frog.html )

11 posted on 12/15/2013 9:08:07 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: Uncle Chip

If you post on the Mail Online, just don’t say something inflammatory, such as the British are ‘Pretentious’. I did, it upset their delicate sensibilities, and I was Banned.


12 posted on 12/15/2013 9:21:16 AM PST by heights
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To: Uncle Chip
then Mandala 2: The Search for MORE MONEY!!!
13 posted on 12/15/2013 9:32:24 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Uncle Chip

I thought I saw a trailer for a Mendela movie coming out soon.


14 posted on 12/15/2013 9:56:24 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44 ('Hey citizen, what's in YOUR closet?')
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To: Uncle Chip
Mandela was a psyop, a Corporate Media myth, a puppet dangled in front of the public controlled by men like Joe Slovo and the wreckers of Western civilization. Just like Obama.

And similar to Obama nobody really likes the man, they like the myth. When he died nobody cared. Will anyone weep for Obama? Does he even have any real friends?

15 posted on 12/15/2013 10:19:11 AM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Uncle Chip

Even with some empty seats, he had more attendees than most of us will have. I am kind of impressed by how many people have gone to the various funerals. That is the other thing, he had numerous funeral events. I can’t imagine anybody wanting to go to more than one or two. The guy is still a communist but had a ton of people at his many funerals.


16 posted on 12/15/2013 11:03:05 AM PST by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: Fresh Wind
I guess Mandela isn’t rising from the dead. The way the liberals talk about him, I thought for sure that would happen.

I'd love to see Michelle "run like hell" after seeing that.

17 posted on 12/15/2013 12:02:29 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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