Death
Banda died in a hospital in South Africa on 15 November 1997, reportedly aged 101. Although buried with pomp, in the decade after his death, there were calls for a more substantial memorial for the country's first president. Construction of a mausoleum with provision for a library and a dancing arena was begun in 2005.
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“If thee thy brittle beauty so deceives,
Know then the thing that swells thee is thy bane;
For the same beauty doth, in bloody leaves.
The sentence of thy early death contain.”
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In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
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