{South Africa will charge one of Nelson Mandela’s grandsons with assault and brandishing a gun at another man, a prosecutor’s official said on Sunday, in a further embarrassment for the anti-apartheid hero’s large and fractious family.}<\/p>\n
Mandla Mandela is due to appear in court on Friday, Luxolo Tyali, a spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority, told Reuters. “The NPA has decided to prosecute him and summons have been issued,” Tyali said.<\/p>\n
South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper said the younger Mandela was reported to have drawn a gun on a 44-year-old teacher whose vehicle had collided with one driven by a guest of Mandla
\nMandela’s.<\/p>\n
The teacher later had to undergo emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain, the newspaper said. A spokesman for the younger Mandela has said the incident never happened and the accusation was “pure fabrication”.<\/p>\n
Tyali spelled out the charges facing Mandla Mandela but declined to give details of the incident.<\/p>\n
Mandla Mandela made headlines earlier this year when a judge ordered him to return the remains of three of Nelson Mandela’s children – including those of his father – from a memorial centre dedicated to his grandfather where he had moved them two years ago.<\/p>\n
Mandla had been sued by more than a dozen of Mandela’s relatives who wanted the remains returned. Mandla said as the local head of the family, it was within his rights to bury the remains on his property.<\/p>\n
Former president Nelson Mandela, 95, spent nearly three months in hospital this year for a lung infection that left him in critical condition. He has been receiving care at his Johannesburg home since early September.<\/p>\n
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