From Tony Blair to the Spice Girls, everyone wanted to be pictured with Nelson Mandela.

It was meant to be a celebration of one man’s life; instead the heavens opened, the stadium was a third empty, and the tens of thousands of rain-sodden South Africans drowned out the A-list speakers with a chorus of disapproval

These mourners attended an early morning service at the Regina Mundi church in Soweto, a focal point of the apartheid struggle