A woman stands close to a memorial of ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela, in the home of his grandson Mandla Mandela, following a court hearing clearing the way to remove the remains of the former leader's children from his property in Mvezo, the birthplace of Nelson Mandela, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa on July 3, 2013. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola
MVEZO, South Africa (Reuters) - Workers armed with pick-axes and a court order broke into the compound of Nelson Mandela's grandson on Wednesday to exhume the remains of three of the anti-apartheid hero's children, a new twist in a row that has split South Africa's most famous family.
Within hours of a ruling against Mandla Mandela by the high court in Mthatha, 700 km (450 miles) south of Johannesburg, police and hearses arrived at Mandla's complex in the nearby village of Mvezo, where the three Mandela offspring are buried.
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