The casket of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, draped in the multi-coloured South African flag, arrived on at the seat of power in the country's capital for public viewing.
Motorcycle-riding police officers escorted the casket from 1 Military Hospital outside of Pretoria to the Union Buildings, once a symbol of the white-dominated government in the country. When Mandela took office, he used the building as his offices and the presidency is still located there.
Some residents of Pretoria lined the streets to watch the procession go by. They sang old struggle songs and called out their farewells to Mandela.
Soldiers in formal uniforms carried Mandela's casket into the Union Buildings to a special viewing centre built inside the building's amphitheatre, which President Jacob Zuma named after Mandela by decree on Tuesday
