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Nelson Mandela's body taken to presidential inauguration site

The body of former South African president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was Wednesday brought back to the Union Buildings here after the memorial service held at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg suburb of Soweto Tuesday.

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The seat of the South African government and the office of the country's president, the Union Buildings is where Mandela was sworn in as the country’s first democratically elected president almost 20 years ago.

South Africa's most famous statesman and Nobel laureate died Dec 5 aged 95.

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