Several thousand guests gathered on Sunday in a huge tent at the family compound of Nelson Mandela to attend the funeral ceremony for the anti-apartheid leader.
Guests included Prince Charles, entrepreneur Richard Branson and US broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey.
Mr Mandela's portrait looked over the assembly in the white marquee from behind a bank of 95 candles representing each year of his life.
His casket, draped in the national flag, was placed on a carpet of animal skins below a lectern where speakers delivered eulogies.
Mr Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, and his second wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, were dressed in black and sat on either side of the South African president, Jacob Zuma.
After the funeral ceremony, a smaller group of guests was to attend Mandela's burial at a family grave site on the estate in Qunu, a rural village in Eastern Cape province.
The burial will end 10 days of mourning ceremonies that included a massive stadium memorial in Johannesburg and three days during which Mandela's body lay in state in the capital, Pretoria.
Source: APTN
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