ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Thousands of mourners began to arrive on a rainy Tuesday morning (December 10) at Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium, for a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.<br/> <br />Ordinary South Africans will be joining scores of leaders from across the world to honour a leader whose life of imprisonment and political struggle made him a global symbol of integrity and forgiveness.<br/> <br />Among the 90 leaders who will pay homage are U.S. President Barack Obama, Cuba's Raul Castro, Iran's Hassan Rouhani and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe.<br/> <br />Singing songs, dancing and waving flags, the crowds queued under umbrellas in the wet grounds.<br/> <br />In the same soccer stadium 23 years earlier, Mandela was cheered by supporters after he was freed from prison and hailed as the hope for a new South Africa.<br/> <br />Huge screens in three other soccer stadiums in Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city and commercial hub, will relay the m
