The funeral cortege of former South African president Nelson Mandela leaves the 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria for the Union Buildings, marking the start of a three-day lying in state. (AFP/Odd Andersen)

People attend the memorial service of Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium (Soccer City) in Johannesburg. (AFP/ODD ANDERSEN)

People gather during the memorial service of Nelson Mandela, held at the FNB Stadium (Soccer City). (AFP/ALEXANDER JOE)

South Africans hold covers of the Afrikaans daily Beeld inside Orlando Stadium in Soweto on December 10, 2013 as they take part in a re-transmission of the memorial service for late former South African President Nelson Mandela. (AFP/Marco Longari)

Nelson Mandela's former wife Winnie Mandela (C) and daughter Zindzi (R) arrives for his memorial service at the FNB Stadium (Soccer City) in Johannesburg. (AFP/STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN)

Manchester United (red shirts) and Shakhtar Donetsk (white shirts) players stand with the match officials behind a banner remembering Nelson Mandela at Old Trafford in Manchester, on December 10, 2013 AFP/Andrew Yates

Candles are placed in front of the image of the late South African leader Nelson Mandela who died two days ago, during a vigil by Palestinians and members of the African community in Old City of Jerusalem. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

A demonstrator holds up a placard reading "Thank you Nelson Mandela" during a demonstration in central Paris against racism on Dec 7, 2013. (AFP/Martin Bureau)

A woman and a man dressed in traditional clothes dance as they take part in a commemorative ceremony in honour of late South African leader Nelson Mandela outside in the Orlando West district of Johannesburg. (AFP/Carl de Souza)

Children in a drum majors group march to pray at Nelson Mandela's old house after travelling from Free State, in Soweto. South Africa is readying for the arrival of world leaders for Mandela's memorial service and funeral as thousands pay homage to the freedom struggle icon. (AP/Ben Curtis)

A vehicle containing the coffin of former South African president Nelson Mandela, draped in the national flag, is driven en route to Pretoria from Johannesburg in South Africa. (AP/Barry Aldworth) 

A man lights a candle at a candle light vigil outside the South African Consulate, held in memory of South Africa's former leader Nelson Mandela in New York, United States. Mandela helped conquer apartheid in racially-divided South Africa. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)

A girl picks up a poster of Nelson Mandela as she and others celebrate his life outside his old house in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. People commemorated Nelson Mandela with song, tears and prayers while pledging to adhere to the values of unity and democracy that he embodied. (AP/Ben Curtis)

European flags fly at half-mast as a tribute to late South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela at the Berlaymont European Union Commission buiding in Brussels. Former South African President Mandela, a global colossus and Nobel peace laureate, died on December 5 aged 95. (AFP/Georges Gobet)

Leila de Wet, two and a half years old, holds flowers in front of a wall of flowers laid by mourners outside late South African former president Nelson Mandela's home in Houghton, Johannesburg, two days after his death. (AFP/CARL DE SOUZA)

Gracie Taylor (R) offers her candle to help light one for Sophia Anderson (R) during a candlelight vigil for Nelson Mandela at Leimert Park in Los Angeles, California. (AFP/Frederic J. Brown)

A man lights a candle near a makeship memorial during a candlelight vigil held in honor of Nelson Mandela outside the South African Consulate in New York. (AFP/Stan HONDA)

A Sri Lankan resident reads a newspaper carrying the image of South African former president Nelson Mandela and news of his death in Colombo. (AFP/LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI)

A child, draped in a cloth with the image of former South African president Nelson Mandela, stands outside Mandela's former home in Soweto, South Africa. (AP)

A framed picture of former South African president Nelson Mandela is shown as people pay tributes following his death in Johannesburg. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, has died aged 95. (AFP/Alexander Joe)

A man holds a candle outside the house of former South African president Nelson Mandela following his death in Johannesburg on December 5, 2013 (AFP/Alexander Joe)

A woman holding a candle and a rose cries outside the house of former South African president Nelson Mandela following his death in Johannesburg on December 5, 2013 (AFP/Alexander Joe)

People sit behind burning candles for former president Nelson Mandela on hearing of his passing outside his Johannesburg home. (AP/Denis Farrell)

A woman cries outside the house of former South African president Nelson Mandela following his death in Johannesburg. (AFP/Alexander Joe)

Australian cricketers observe a minute's silence to mark the passsing of former South African president Nelson Mandela on the second day of the second Ashes cricket Test match between England and Australia in Adelaide (AFP/Saeed Khan)

A Mandela mural in Soweto, a township where the former president had lived from 1946 to 1990 (AFP/ODD ANDERSEN)