South African Mother and Child

On the day of Nelson Mandela' memorial service in South Africa, I was given a tip off by a fellow blipper that Edinburgh's tribute to those people killed and imprisoned during the apartheid years in that country, the statue of an African Mother and child in Lothian Road was garlanded with flags and flowers and a photograph of the great man himself.
And this is my blip for the day.

This Edinburgh tribute to the conflict in South Africa is a small token compared to that of Glasgow, which was the first city in the world to grant Nelson Mandela the freedom of their city while he was still imprisoned, and to rename Exchange Square in that city, Nelson Mandela Place. It is no coincidence that it houses the South African Embassy.

As I watch the service on the television, I notice the continuous heavy rain almost as if the heavens are grieving along with the world for the passing of a human being so universally admired.