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Zwelithini died on Friday after weeks of treatment for a diabetes-related illness.
He will be buried during an intimate ceremony after midnight on Wednesday.
Clad in leopard skins and multi-coloured beads, hundreds of mourners on Wednesday gathered to pay their respects to King Goodwill Zwelithini, who died last week.
The king was the longest-serving monarch in Zulu history, reigning for half a century through years of apartheid and democratic transition.
He died early on Friday in Durban, aged 72, after weeks of treatment for a diabetes-related illness.
His remains have been taken back to his birthplace, the small southeastern town of Nongoma in KwaZulu-Natal, where he will be laid to rest after midnight.
Hundreds of mourners paid their respects today to Goodwill Zwelithini in Nongoma, the King s birthplace
The Zulu King passed away in the early hours of Friday following weeks of treatment in hospital for diabetes
At the funeral today, topless women in elaborate necklaces danced and sang as they paraded to mortuary
During his 49-year-long reign, Zwelithini revived annual festivals where bare-breasted young virgins danced in front of him
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