Mandela relative killed
China Daily | Updated: 2010-06-12 08:22
JOHANNESBURG - It should have been a moment of triumph - Nelson Mandela, basking in the cheers as Africa's first World Cup opened.
Instead, South Africa's beloved anti-apartheid icon stayed at home with his family on Friday in northern Johannesburg during the opening ceremony and game, mourning his 13-year-old great-granddaughter Zenani, who died in a car crash on the way home from a tournament-eve concert in Soweto.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation said the tragedy "made it inappropriate" for the former president, who is 91, to attend the opening ceremony.
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