(15 Jan 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot of marquee for funeral service
2. Archbishop Desmond Tutu arriving for funeral
3. Former South African President Nelson Mandela and wife Graca Machel getting out of car
4. Funeral ceremony with photograph of Makgatho Mandela
5. Close-up of photograph
6. Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela's former wife
7. Wide shot of coffin and people gathered for ceremony
8. Close-up of Nelson Mandela
9. Pan of funeral ceremony
10. Close-up of Mandela and wife Graca Machel holding hands, zoom out to couple listening to ceremony
11. Various of Mandela and Graca Machel outside laying wreath
12. Mandela being seated
13. Various of coffin being lowered
STORYLINE:
Dignitaries gathered in Qunu, South Africa, for the funeral of Nelson Mandela's last surviving son, Makgatho.
Hours after Makgatho died in a Johannesburg hospital last week, Mandela announced that his son was HIV positive and had died of an AIDS-related complications.
Mandela said his announcement was a plea for everyone to be more open about the disease, which kills about 600 South Africans a day.
Mandla Mandela, Makgatho's son, told mourners his mother Zondi died of the same disease. Previously the family had said she died of pneumonia.
Among the 4,000 people who attended the funeral at the former president's Eastern Cape home were his former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, President Thabo Mbeki, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, business leaders, Zulu royalty and local villagers.
Tutu said a prayer at the funeral, during which a gaunt Mandela was supported by his wife Graca Machel.
More than five million of South Africa's 45 million people are infected with HIV - more than in any other country - but until this year, the government refused to provide life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs through the public health system, citing concerns about their safety and cost.
It has now promised to provide free treatment to all who need it within five years.
Mandela has been an outspoken AIDS campaigner, criticising the government for its slow reaction to combat the disease.
Makgatho Mandela, an attorney, was one of four children from Nelson Mandela's first marriage to Evelyn Mase, who died last year at 82.
Of the other three children, a daughter died in 1948 before she was a year old and another son was killed in a car crash in 1969.
Makgatho Mandela is survived by four sons - one of them from a previous marriage.
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