On a hillside at his ancestral home in the Eastern Cape and following a state funeral Nelson Mandela was laid to rest.<br /><br />Qunu’s most famous son had come home and the world shared in the grief of his family.<br /><br />Madiba as he was known had chosen the burial plot overlooking the village where as a child he had been baptised, herded cattle and gone to school. The final committal was led by Bishop Dabula<br /><br />“Rest in Peace. Yours was a truly long walk to freedom and now you have achieved the ultimate freedom in the bosom of your maker God almighty. Amen.”<br /><br />It was a ceremony mixed with military tradition, a bugler sounding the last post which echoed across the hillsides after a salute from the air with flags of the rainbow nation which Nelson Mandela had led to democracy.
