His final moments - Times LIVE: "Nelson Mandela spent his last moments surrounded by close family members, including his wife, Graça Machel, former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, daughter Makaziwe and grandson Mandla.By the time he died on Thursday evening, he was not on a life-support machine and had been breathing on his own.
Mandla, his heir, had been urgently summoned from Mvezo in the Eastern Cape to his grandfather's bedside early on Thursday morning.
One of the last people to see Mandela alive was United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa. Speaking to the Sunday Times, Holomisa, who was very close to Mandela for many years, said he arrived at the Houghton, Johannesburg, home on Thursday at about 5.30pm after he received a call that the former statesman "was not well".
"I went straight to see him in his room. I was sad to see that his situation, from the last time I saw him, had deteriorated very badly," Holomisa said."
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