Fears amid the mourning

South Africans united in mourning for Nelson Mandela yesterday, but while some celebrated his remarkable life with dance and song, others fretted that the anti-apartheid hero’s death would make the nation vulnerable again to racial and social tensions.

President Jacob Zuma said Mandela would be buried on Sunday, Dec 15, at his ancestral home in the Eastern Cape.

South Africans heard from Zuma late on Thursday that their first black president had died peacefully at his Johannesburg home in the company of his family after a long illness.