The content of this research focuses on two main themes: the exhumation of three corpses of Mandela by Mandla Mandela and a study on the culture and burial of Xhosa and, in some cases, specifically Tembu. tradition. The Mandela family feud will be examined and a study of how traditional Xhosa culture has or has not changed today, as these aspects of the subject are essential aspects of research that will allow a conclusion to be drawn as to whether Mandla Mandela's actions were or not. it is not culturally and ethically correct. According to Maylie (2013: a and b), the Mandela "family feud" began in 2011 because Mandla Mandela (Nelson Mandela's eldest grandson) possessed the bodies of his uncle, Thembekile Mandela (Madiba's eldest son). , his aunt, Makaziwe Mandela (Madiba's first daughter), and his father, Makgatho Mandela, were exhumed from their cemetery in Qunu and reburied in Mvezo, without permission from village elders or the Mandela family (Louw. 2014). The fact that the three corpses are the remains of Nelson Mandela's children is very significant - Nelson Mandela being their father... The controversy lay in the fact that Mandla Mandela had recently built an expensive visitors center in Mvezo. Second, he had not asked permission from the elders to exhume these corpses; and third, Nelson Mandela stated in his will that he wished to be buried in Qunu alongside his children. If Mandla had succeeded, Nelson Mandela would have been buried in Mvezo, thus ensuring a constant flow of people from around the world coming on "pilgrimage" to Nelson Mandela's grave in Mvezo and, in return, for Mandla, a source of generated income by tourism. members of the Mandela family filed an urgent complaint against Mandla, which ended up in the Mthatha Regional Court iss...... middle of paper ...... y, what he calls "the black psyche » remains rooted. By this he refers to the remaining traditional beliefs of the Xhosa: the belief in ancestors, the power of witchdoctors, the Lobolo and the practice of circumcision. As a result, Africans find it difficult to “turn their backs” on tribal life. This implies that at present, the fundamental aspects of Xhosa belief remain and are in practice, although they are merged with Western culture. This cultural adaptation or influence is called “acculturation” and is the result of prolonged historical conflict between blacks and whites. (Magubane, 2000). This post-democratic source from South Africa infers that traditional African cultures in general have not become totally Westernized: that even when converting to the Christian faith, they adapted it, giving it "a distinct African flavor" ( are eclectic). (Magubane, 2000).