The body of Nelson Mandela will lie in state for a third day on Friday. It will then be flown to the Eastern Cape, and buried on Sunday at his childhood home in Qunu, 700 km from Johannesburg.<br /><br />Thousands of mourners continued to queue to say goodbye to Mandela in Pretoria in the building where he was inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president in 1994.<br /><br />President of Cuba Raul Castro was among the world leaders to file past Mandela’s coffin, stopping for a final farewell.<br /><br />Thousands of Cuban doctors have worked in South Africa’s poor communities as part of an international outreach campaign that has lasted since the 1970s.<br /><br />Mandela was hailed a hero by Cubans.<br /><br />Malaysia’s long-serving former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamed, paid his respects.<br /><br />Venezuela vice president, Jorge Arreaza, presented Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela with a replica sword of Venezuelan independence hero Simon Bolivar.<br /><br />Arreaza gave the replica sword to the people of South Afrcia, saying it was “as a symbol of struggle,”
