Mandela family tries to end gravesite row

July 02, 2013 00:56

Lawyers for Nelson Mandela's relatives met today to try to resolve a bitter family feud over the eventual burial site of the critically ill anti-apartheid hero.

Legal teams met all day in the southern city of Mthatha after 16 relatives last week asked a court to order the return of the remains of three of Mandela's children to his ancestral village Qunu, a family lawyer said.

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