. >> woodruff: a short time ago, i spoke with lydia polgreen, johannesburg bureau chief for the "new york times." lydia polgreen, thank you for talking with us. >> my pleasure, judy. >> woodruff: how are south africans reacting today to mandela's death? are they all black and white united in their view of him? >> overwhelmingly i would say yes. today i was outside his home in an upscale suburb of johannesburg. and there were not just black and white, there were, you know, yalmke and muslim knitted prayer caps. there were young and old, people from a whole variety of walks of life all over south africa. so what i'm seeing is a real kind of coming together of the rainbow nation. and when you talk to people, you get the sense that they feel very glad to have this opportunity to kind of reembrace and reassert that identity that was so strong when nelson mandela first became president in 1994. >> woodruff: you write today that south africans were coming together to mourn his death in a way that you said seems increasingly rare in a nation confronting significant economic challenges. you a