QUNU: A bitter feud within Nelson Mandela’s family over the final resting place of the ailing anti-apartheid hero and his children intensified yesterday, with his grandson lamenting the dispute has been taken to court.
Mandla Mandela said “regrettably and reluctantly” he was “compelled to go to court and respond” to 16 relatives demanding in court the return of the remains of Mandela’s children to the village of Qunu.
The remains of three of Mandela’s children are currently buried at Mvezo, some 30 kilometres to Qunu’s south, after Mandla moved them, allegedly without the family’s consent, in 2011. Mandela, who remains critically ill in what is now his fourth week in hospital, had expressed his wish to be buried in Qunu. His daughters want to have the remains of his children transferred so they can be buried together. AFP
