Story Highlights Police sergeant shoots himself with service unit while on duty Incident occurs in guard house outside Mandela's Johannesburg home The former South African president was home at the ...

Constructed in 1945 in the Orlando West section of Soweto, Johannesburg, the Mandela House became the home for Nelson Mandela (also known as Madiba) and his first wife, Evelyn Ntoko Mase in 1946.