World leaders lined up at the exact place where Mandela was sworn in as the first black president 19 years ago to give their prayers to Mandela's flag draped coffin on Wednesday afternoon. Over thousands of people lined up at Pretoria's Union Buildings for a last chance to say their goodbyes to see an icon memoralized as a "giant of history." A few of the people who were their to show their respect for Mandela was singer Bono, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and model Naomi Campbell. F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last white president and Mandela's fellow Nobel laureate, who whiped a tear reporters reported as passing the coffin of Mandela.
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