Mandela attends funeral of great granddaughter

A SOMBRE and frail Nelson Mandela attended the funeral for his 13-year-old great-granddaughter yesterday, after she was killed in a car crash following the World Cup’s opening concert.

The 91-year-old anti-apartheid icon emerged stiffly from a car and leaned on a walking stick.

He was ferried in a golf cart to the brick chapel of the Johannesburg private school Zenani Mandela had attended and took a front pew.

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