QUNU, South Africa — After 10 days of national mourning, the state funeral of Nelson Mandela was set to get underway on Sunday, with thousands of family members, dignitaries and friends gathering to bury South Africa's first black president in this far-flung village where he spent his childhood.
The funeral, the final parting after a series of celebrations and memorials that have consumed the land since he died on Dec. 5 after months of illness and decline, left his country poised on the cusp of a post-Mandela era that seems certain to test the durability of his legacy.
Mr. Mandela's coffin, which was flown on Saturday from Pretoria, the capital, to the Eastern Cape region, was to be borne on a gun-carriage from his family home to an enormous marquee set up over the burial site to house some 5,000 mourners.
Some of them gathered with songs and dancing in what has become a familiar fusion of grief at Mr. Mandela's death and celebration of a life that became an emblem of the struggle against apartheid.
The ceremonies blended the public — with global television coverage — and the private. While many of the rites and pageantry were aired by the state broadcaster, family members had requested that the moment of burial proceed with no cameras or media representatives on hand.
The funeral was planned with full military honors including a gun salute, aircraft fly-past and bugler sounding the last post and reveille. The strains of "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika," or God Bless Africa — South Africa's national anthem that was once the rallying call of the struggle against apartheid — rose over the rolling green hills around Qunu.
John Eligon and Lydia Polgreen reported from Qunu, South Africa, and Alan Cowell from London.
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