Ex-president Nelson Mandela’s body should be embalmed after his death and displayed in a glass cage at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, according to the African National Congress’s deputy leader at the Port Elizabeth metropole, Mike Xego.
The Johannesburg daily, Beeld, reported that Xego said he would discuss this proposal with the ANC’s leadership in Gauteng and Mandela’s family.
”Mandela is an icon and owned by people around the world,” Beeld quoted Xego as saying.
”It is unthinkable that he should be buried beneath stones and earth, and be represented by just a tombstone.” – Sapa