Mandela buried at childhood home

Nelson Mandela has been buried in the African ground he loved after a funeral ceremony that included a 21-gun salute and fly-overs by military aircraft as well as a eulogy by a traditional leader wearing an animal skin.

Mr Mandela’s casket was lowered into the earth after military pallbearers carried it to the family grave site in the rolling hills of Qunu, the rural village in eastern South Africa which was the childhood home of the anti-apartheid leader who became the country’s first democratically elected president.