Row over Mandela grave deepens as children are re-exhumed

As 94-year-old lies in hospital, bodies of his children are set to be dug up and moved again

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(Image credit: 2013 AFP)

THE dispute between members of Nelson Mandela's family over where South Africa's first black president should be buried has taken a new, rather bizarre turn.

The argument broke out during a meeting of the Mandela clan at his home in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape. Mandela's grandson, Mandla, revealed he had exhumed the bodies of three of his grandfather's children from their graves in Qunu and re-buried them in the village of Mvezo where the 94-year-old was born.

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