Nelson Mandela’s flag-draped casket made a solemn journey through the streets of Pretoria on Wednesday, arriving at the seat of South Africa’s government where he will lie in state for three days.
A black hearse phalanxed by 16 motorcycle outriders rolled out of the city’s 1 Military Hospital onto streets lined with flag-waving South Africans who formed a public guard of honour.
The casket was unloaded by eight pallbearers representing the branches of the armed forces in full uniform.
South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, South Africa's president says.
Mr Mandela, 95, led South Africa's transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s, after 27 years in prison.
He had been receiving intense home-based medical care for a lung infection after three months in hospital.
Daughters of former South African President, Nelson Mandela have taken up court actions to oust three of Mandela’s aides from companies linked to him.
Nelson Mandela is “fine” and improving after more than a week in hospital, his wife has said in the latest positive update on the 94-year-old icon’s pneumonia treatment.
“Madiba is fine, Madiba is getting better and better,” the private eNCA news channel quoted Graca Machel as saying, referring to Mandela’s clan name.
South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela's granddaughters are seeking fame of their own as stars of a new reality-TV series tagged ''Being Mandela''. Being Mandela follows Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway and Swati Dlamini, granddaughters of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and his ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
