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ANC MEMBERS PAYS TRIBUTE AHEAD OF STATE FUNERAL
 
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Sat, 14 Dec 2013   ||   Nigeria,
 

Members of the African National Congress have been paying final tributes to Nelson Mandela at a ceremony ahead of Sunday's funeral.

President Jacob Zuma and other ANC leaders attended the ceremony at a Pretoria airbase.

Mr. Mandela's coffin, draped with the ANC flag, was taken there from a mortuary in the city.

After the farewell ceremony, the coffin will be taken to Mr. Mandela's ancestral home in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape

At least 100,000 people saw the former South African president's body lying in state in Pretoria over the last three days, but some had to be turned away.

The 95-year-old former leader died on 5 December.

 

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