Memorial service at Johannesburg soccer stadium for Mandela
December 06, 2013  08:54
CNN reports: There will be both public and private farewells for former South African President Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday at the age of 95.

In the next three or four days, his body is expected to be taken to a military hospital and embalmed, according to government sources.

There will be a memorial service in the Johannesburg soccer stadium where the World Cup final was played in 2010. Heads of state may attend this public farewell.

Afterward, the government sources say, Mandela will lie in state for several days at the government's seat in Pretoria.

Next week, probably on Friday or Saturday, Mandela will be taken by military aircraft to his ancestral hometown of Qunu, which he had asked to be his final resting place.

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