Tens of thousands of people have gathered at a large stadium in the South African city of Johannesburg for a memorial service for the anti-apartheid Icon, Nelson Mandela.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Canadian prime minister and US President Barack Obama are among those attending the Tuesday memorial.
South Africa is observing a series of commemorations leading up Mandela’s state funeral on Sunday. His casket is due to lie in state for three days in Pretoria before being flown to the village of Qunu in Eastern Cape, where he was born.
