the name of Allah, God Almighty" as he took the marriage vows before an Imam at a mosque in South Africa's Cape Town city on Saturday. “I wish to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Rabia's parents, her extended family and the Muslim community, for welcoming me into their hearts,” Mandla Mandela said in a statement. He is an MP and the chief of the Traditional Council in Mvezo, the birthplace of anti-the apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013.
Mandla Mandela has not commented on whether he has
changed his faith, but some South African journalists and Twitter
users are saying he has become a Muslim. The Muslim cleric
who performed the wedding ceremony of Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla Mandla,
says the 42-year-old converted to Islam last year, South Africa's private IOL news site reports .. “I
can say that it was an honour for me to perform the marriage ceremony for the
grandson of our great leader Nelson Mandela,” said Sheikh Ebrahim
Gabriels, who performed the ceremony at a mosque in Cape Town on
Saturday. IOL reports that the cleric would not be drawn on the dowry
paid by Mr Mandela, saying only that it had been "agreed between the
husband and wife”. Mr Mandela - an MP and a traditional ruler - has
not yet commented on his faith.
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