An Eastern Cape headman’s ambition of elevation to a senior traditional leadership status (chieftainship) and seceding from the rule of another traditional leader, has been dealt a big blow after his legal bid to rescind a decade-old court order prohibiting his quest, failed.
court wearing traditional robes at the trial in 1964. it was a healing moment when his father s chieftanship was returned to the family in 2007 and handed to mandela s grandson mandola. he says family and planned history is pivotal to his grntd father s identity. we would like to tell the story of the mandela royal family within the greater nation and how it has existed over the many centuries and how it has played its role from one generation to another. it is those tradition and customs that seem to be the person that he became. reporter: when he retired from public life, mandela returned to live a quiet life in kunu. he celebrated his 91st birthday here, illness returned him to johannesburg to be better closer