NELSON MANDELA'S grandson Mandla has lost a court battle against other members of the former South African leader's family in a feud over graves.
The row is over the remains of three of the ex-president's children, which he allegedly failed to tell relatives he was moving from Qunu to Mvezo, in South Africa, the birthplace of the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader.
A high court said the remains should be restored by Wednesday afternoon.
Nelson Mandela remains critically ill in hospital, where he is being treated for a lung infection.
The former president has expressed a wish to be buried in the family graveyard in the village of Qunu.
A bitter feud broke out last week, after 16 members of the Mandela family brought charges for 'tampering with a grave' against Mandla, over claims he reburied the children's remains in 2011 without their permission.
The remains are of Makgatho Mandela, Mandla's father who died from AIDS-related diseases in 2005, and his siblings, Thembekile, who was killed in a car accident in 1969, and Makaziwe, who died when she was nine months old.
The row is over the remains of three of the ex-president's children, which he allegedly failed to tell relatives he was moving from Qunu to Mvezo, in South Africa, the birthplace of the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader.
A high court said the remains should be restored by Wednesday afternoon.
Nelson Mandela remains critically ill in hospital, where he is being treated for a lung infection.
The former president has expressed a wish to be buried in the family graveyard in the village of Qunu.
A bitter feud broke out last week, after 16 members of the Mandela family brought charges for 'tampering with a grave' against Mandla, over claims he reburied the children's remains in 2011 without their permission.
The remains are of Makgatho Mandela, Mandla's father who died from AIDS-related diseases in 2005, and his siblings, Thembekile, who was killed in a car accident in 1969, and Makaziwe, who died when she was nine months old.