A man holds a portrait of Nelson Mandela as people queue to bid farewell to South African former president Nelson Mandela lying in state outside the Union Buildings on Thursday in Pretoria. AFP PHOTO
A man holds a portrait of Nelson Mandela as people queue to bid farewell to South African former president Nelson Mandela lying in state outside the Union Buildings on Thursday in Pretoria. AFP PHOTO

QUNU, South Africa: South African troops and mounted police patrolled Nelson Mandela’s boyhood home of Qunu on Thursday, with the village under virtual security lockdown ahead of the peace icon’s burial there at the weekend.

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