Three previous Prime Ministers - Sir John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - are to join current PM David Cameron at the memorial ceremony for Nelson Mandela in South Africa tomorrow, Downing Street said.
Fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu will lead a tribute evening to Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg this evening.
The tribute evening, organised by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, will be addressed by the former Archbishop of Cape Town, and will hear songs from the Soweto Gospel Choir.
From South Africa ITV News Presenter Mark Austin writes on what the future holds for the new, post-Mandela, Rainbow Nation.
The rugby captain whose handshake with Nelson Mandela came to define the progress of post-apartheid South Africa pays tribute to his idol.