South Africa's freedom fighter and first black President Nelson Mandela who died in Johannesburg home on 05 December 2013, at the age of 95. After a long
battle with illness and he was laid to rest in his grave in the remote village
in Qunu in Eastern Cape Province.
A fly past then followed accompanied by a 21-gun salute
and a solitary trumpeter played the Last Post while his body was lowered into
the ground.
As he was buried a military chaplain said: 'Yours was
truly a long walk to freedom, and now you have achieved the ultimate freedom,
in the bosom of your maker.'
His funeral was also marked by his Xhosa tribe whose
elders will have slaughtered an ox to accompany his spirit after burial, while guests
would be asked to drink its blood from a communal bowl.
But it is understood dignitaries such as Prince Charles
were probably offered the animal's meat to eat instead after it was cooked on
an open fire.
Mandela's family also talked to him until he lowered into
the earth and will have said 'Madiba, we are now burying you,' a tradition
followed so the souls of the dead know where they are going.