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| Nelson Mandela: Grandson Mandla loses grave case | Nelson Mandela: Grandson Mandla loses grave case |
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| Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla has lost a court battle against other members of the former South African leader's family in a row over graves. | Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla has lost a court battle against other members of the former South African leader's family in a row over graves. |
| It involves the remains of three of the ex-president's children, which were allegedly moved from a family graveyard about two years ago by Mandla Mandela to his nearby homestead. | It involves the remains of three of the ex-president's children, which were allegedly moved from a family graveyard about two years ago by Mandla Mandela to his nearby homestead. |
| A high court said the remains should be restored by Wednesday afternoon. | A high court said the remains should be restored by Wednesday afternoon. |
| Nelson Mandela remains critically ill in hospital. | Nelson Mandela remains critically ill in hospital. |
| He is suffering from a recurring lung infection and has expressed a wish to be buried in the family graveyard in the village of Qunu, his ancestral home. | |
| It is not clear whether Mandla Mandela's lawyers will appeal against the ruling by the Mthatha High Court in Eastern Cape Province. | |
| Last week, 16 members of the Mandela family were granted an interim order for the remains to be exhumed and moved from Mandla Mandela's homestead in the village of Mvezo to nearby Qunu, 22km (14 miles) away. | |
| But Mandla Mandela, who was appointed as chief of Mvezo by his grandfather, went to court to challenge it. | |
| The remains are of Makgatho Mandela, Mandla's father who died from Aids-related diseases in 2005, and his siblings, Thembekile, who was killed in a car accident in 1969, and Makaziwe, who died when she was nine months old. | |
| The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says Mandla Mandela's plans to open a heritage centre dedicated to his grandfather in Mvezo, in the estate where the graves are at the moment, have left a bitter taste in the mouths of many within the family. |