Spokesperson Phumla Williams said in a statement on Thursday that government was aware of "social media activity" around the existence of a picture of former president Nelson Mandela lying in state at the Union Buildings.
"Government welcomes the way in which people on social platforms are expressing their disappointment and outrage at any circulation of such photographs," she said.
"If this content exists, government calls on people not to view it and to delete it from their [social media] timelines."
There are no plans to release official photographs of Mandela, she said.
"Government is respecting the [Mandela] family's wish that no photographs of [former] president Mandela's body be released," spokesperson Phumla Williams said in a statement."
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