(17 Jun 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Exterior chapel, venue of funeral of Zenani Mandela
2. Winnie Mandela arriving at funeral, enters chapel
3. Winnie Mandela walking up aisle inside chapel
4. Nelson Mandela is helped out of car outside chapel, slowly walks leaning on walking stick towards golf buggy, sits down by his wife Graca Machel, AUDIO: funeral service, which has started, audible outside
5. Inside church, school girls singing, zoom in, one girl wiping off a tear
6. Wide Nelson Mandela enters church
7. Mandela walking aisle towards his seat, accompanied by aide
8. Mandela sits down, his wife Graca Machel sits by his side
9. Wide shot service
10. Various of screen projecting montage of pictures of Zenani Mandela with her mother and relatives, then with her great grandfather Nelson Mandela, AUDIO: song "Lean on Me" plays
11. Man watching with contained emotion
12. More of screen showing pictures
13. Close up women watching, one of them cries
14. Screen reading "Zenani Zanethemba Nomasombo Mandela. 09 June 1997 - 11 June 2010. Gone too soon"
STORYLINE:
The funeral was held on Thursday in Johannesburg of Zenani Mandela, the 13-year-old great-granddaughter of South Africa's former president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.
Mandela attended the funeral of Zenani, who was killed in a car crash returning home after the World Cup's opening concert.
Nelson Mandela emerged stiffly from a car and leaned on a walking stick to attend the religious service in the brick chapel of the Johannesburg private school that Zenani had attended.
Zenani was a member of the school's choir, marimba club and drum corps, and had told relatives she wanted to be a plastic surgeon.
Mandela arrived accompanied by his wife, Graca Machel, and was driven from the school's front gates to the chapel a few minutes after the service began.
Frail and nearing 92, Mandela's public appearances are increasingly rare.
He took a front pew, his face somber and a corsage of pink roses pinned to the lapel of his black coat.
Also among the mourners was his ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who is Zenani's great-grandmother.
Mourners, including Zenani's classmates in school blazers, each held a single white rose.
They stood to sing "Amazing Grace" as the funeral began. Then, a montage of family portraits including one of Zenani hugging Mandela was projected on a screen as a recording of "Lean on Me" played.
Mandela did not attend the World Cup tournament's opening ceremony and first game, which took place the day after Zenani's death.
Police say the close family friend who was driving the car in which she died could be charged with drunk driving and homicide.
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