{"id":6149,"date":"2013-06-26T08:04:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T08:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6149"},"modified":"2013-06-26T08:04:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T08:04:26","slug":"mandela-children-quarrelling-over-grave-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6149","title":{"rendered":"Mandela children quarrelling over grave site"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6029\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/qunu2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6029\" alt=\"Qunu\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/qunu2-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/qunu2-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/qunu2-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/qunu2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qunu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Newspapers in Gauteng reported on Wednesday that former president Nelson Mandela&#8217;s grandson Mandla Mandela stormed out of a family meeting in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape, after a disagreement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three sources told The Star the family was torn between Mandla Mandela &#8211;who wants Mandela buried at his birthplace in Mvezo &#8212; and the rest, who felt that his wish to be buried next to his children should be respected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Star reported that a Mandela family meeting held in Qunu on Tuesday was to discuss a &#8220;significant&#8221; family matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting was attended by the family, United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa and Public Service and Administration Minister Lindiwe Sisulu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Times reported that a group of elders planned to fly to Gauteng to assess the critically ill Mandela and decide what to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It reported that the meeting on Tuesday had focused on Mandela&#8217;s health, and on the moving of the family graves from Qunu to Mvezo in 2011. The graves were moved by Mandla Mandela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Times reported that the family wanted the graves of three of Mandela&#8217;s children &#8212; sons Makgatho and Thembekile and daughter Makaziwe &#8212; to be in Qunu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The newspaper reported that it understood that a fuming Mandla Mandela, who moved the graves without consulting the family, stormed out of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mandla Mandela could not be reached for comment. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspapers in Gauteng reported on Wednesday that former president Nelson Mandela&#8217;s grandson Mandla Mandela stormed out of a family meeting in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape, after a disagreement. Three sources told The Star the family was torn between Mandla Mandela &#8211;who wants Mandela buried at his birthplace in Mvezo &#8212; and the rest, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mandela children quarrelling over grave site&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3490,3488,475,327,3152,3489],"class_list":["post-6149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-bantu-holomisa","tag-grave-site","tag-lindiwe-sisulu","tag-mandela","tag-mandla-mandela","tag-quarrel"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/qunu2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6152,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions\/6152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}