Provincial funeral offer for Lucas Mangope
(World News South Africa)

The family of former bantustan leader, Lucas Manyane Mangope, have welcomed an offer by the North West provincial government to provide him with a special funeral following his death on Thursday. They said a provincial funeral was the `great gift` for the former homeland leader for `the role he played to develop Bophuthatswana`, a family member said. Mangope was the former homeland`s leader from 1977 to 1994. He died at a local hospital in...