非洲国民大会举行曼德拉遗体告别仪式
Members of the African National Congress have been paying final tributes to Nelson Mandela at a ceremony ahead of Sunday's funeral.
非洲国民大会的成员先于周日葬礼前向纳尔逊·曼德拉的遗体做最终告别。
President Jacob Zuma and other ANC leaders attended the ceremony at a Pretoria airbase.
Mr Mandela's coffin, draped with the ANC flag, was taken there from a mortuary（太平间） in the city.
After the farewell ceremony, the coffin will be taken to Mr Mandela's ancestral home in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape
At least 100,000 people saw the former South African president's body lying in state in Pretoria over the last three days, but some had to be turned away.
The 95-year-old former leader died on 5 December.
'Human chain'
More than 1,000 members of the ANC, which Mr Mandela once led, attended the ceremony at the Waterkloof air base.
US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and Ireland's Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams were among the foreign guests invited.
Mourners heard President Zuma pay his own tribute to Nelson Mandela, calling him a "towering figure", "a man of action" and a "democrat who understood the world."
"Yes, we will miss him... He was our father, he was our guardian. He was something special."
"We'll always keep you in our hearts," Mr Zuma said.
After the ceremony the coffin will be flown to Mthatha airport in the Eastern Cape ahead of the burial in Qunu.
Chief mourners from Mandela's clan and family, as well as senior government officials, would accompany the coffin, army officials said.