Madiba home at last

Madiba home at last - Eastern Cape | IOL News | IOL.co.za: "South Africa today will sing the last song, cry, mourn and pray as the founding father of South Africa’s democracy, Nelson Mandela, is laid to rest.

His special place, where Madiba’s mortal remains will be committed, is 2.2m deep and is fortified by a special concrete mix that was poured into the grave to stop the soil from pushing up his coffin.

At 2pm on Sunday, after a funeral service and traditional rites that will last four hours, Mandela’s coffin, draped in the South African flag, will be lowered into the grave, watched by his grieving widow Graça Machel, his ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Mandela’s last journey starts at 7am on Sunday, when the body would leave his Qunu house and make a two-hour procession along a 1.5km stretch to the koppie, or hill, where the funeral and burial were to take place.

More than 20 heads of state as well as the South African cabinet, led by President Jacob Zuma, were due to attend the service."

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