SOUTH Africa's first democratically elected President, Nelson Rohihlahla Mandela (95) was expected to be buried at his home village of Qunu in the Eastern Cape Province today, as the world comes to terms with life without the elder statesman and icon of universal justice.
The burial will mark the end of 10 days of a state mourning period to honour and remember the man that nations took in as the most potent symbol of their collective humanity in a world challenged by seemingly endless crises, some new and other centuries old with no solutions in sight.
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