When Nelson Mandela is finally laid to rest, it will be on the same windswept hillside in Qunu, his childhood village in South Africa's Eastern Cape, where three of his children already lie.
The "son of the soil," as the Mandelas call him, first chose the resting place, according to early drafts of his will seen 20 years ago, because of his desire to return to a family that his lifetime in prison and politics had kept him from.
And yet the unquiet graves of his daughter Makaziwe and his sons Thembi and Magkatho, the last of whom died in 2005, are testament to the turmoil within South Africa's most famous family. Their remains were the subject of a ghoulish tug of war between the former president's grandson Mandla Mandela and much of the rest of the family, led by his eldest surviving daughter, also named Makaziwe.
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