Flame extinguished at Mandela museum, family friend on funeral service:
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Bayanda Nyengule, the head of the Nelson Mandela Museum in Qunu, said on Sunday that the sight of Mandela’s coffin being lowered into the ground hit him hard.
Nyengule was was one of those who attended the private burial in Qunu, the rural village in eastern South Africa that was Mandela’s childhood home.
“I realised that the old man is no more, no more with us,” Nyengule said.
As mourners began to leave after the funeral, a friend of the Mandela family who had been present at the service said she was also struck by the sight of the casket being lowered into the earth.
“The whole week, we’ve been celebrating his life but today after that speech from Kathrada and just watching that coffin going down, being lowered into the ground, was… I don’t know, that’s when reality sort of hit that he’s really gone,” said Thato Pekeche.
South African television showed Mandela’s casket at the family gravesite, but the broadcast went to a different scene just before the coffin was lowered at the request of the Mandela family.
It was South Africa’s final goodbye to the man who reconciled the country in its most volatile period.
Earlier, more than 4,000 gathered for a funeral service in a huge tent at the family compound.
Mandela died on December 5 at the age of 95 after a long illness.
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