JOHANNESBURG, AFP-JIJI – The South African government said Thursday it would not release photographs of former President Nelson Mandela lying in state, and urged people to shun a hoax image purporting to be of the dead president that was posted on the Internet.
While tens of thousands filed past the democracy icon’s open coffin in Pretoria, social media were buzzing with condemnation of an apparent sneaked photo of the president’s face that had been posted online.
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