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"I was just feeling sad when I saw him lying there as if he can wake up. As if I can say 'Mr Mandela, how are you?'" said 44-year-old Anna Mtsoweni, a blind man with a cane passed by, helped by an aide, who had joined the queue before dawn. 

"I never met Mandela, so this is my only chance and it's important I pay my respects. I'm South African -- I have to be here," said 28-year-old Vaughan Motshwene.

 
"It feels like the end of an era. All the opportunities I've had growing up that my parents never had, Madiba gave me that," said government employee Faaiqia Hartley, 27.