Nelson Mandela's Body Lying In State In Pretoria.

The body of Nelson Mandela arrived at the Union Buildings in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, where the anti-apartheid hero and first black president of the country is lying  in state.

Thousands of people lined the streets as a procession of police motorcycles led the black hearse carrying Mandela's coffin, draped in the South African flag, on Wednesday morning.Mandela's body will lie in state for three days at the Union Buildings, where he was inaugurated as president in 1994 after the first all-race elections that ended decades of white-minority apartheid rule.