{"id":4912,"date":"2013-06-08T07:53:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T07:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2013-06-08T07:53:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T07:53:55","slug":"nelson-mandela-in-serious-condition-in-pretoria-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4912","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela in ‘serious condition’ in Pretoria hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nelson Mandela at 91<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Former South African president Nelson Mandela was in a “serious but stable” condition after being taken to hospital early on Saturday with a recurring lung infection, the government said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero and the country’s first black president has been in hospital three times since December and has been battling this bout of the infection for several days, it said.<\/p>\n

“This morning at about 1:30 a.m. (7.30 p.m. EDT On Friday) his condition deteriorated and he was transferred to a Pretoria hospital. He remains in a serious but stable condition,” the government said.<\/p>\n

Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj told local television Mandela’s condition was “serious this time”.<\/p>\n

“The situation is serious this time but doctors have assured us he is comfortable,” he told television station eNCA.<\/p>\n

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate stepped down as president in 1999 and has not been politically active for about a decade. – Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former South African president Nelson Mandela was in a “serious but stable” condition after being taken to hospital early on Saturday with a recurring lung infection, the government said in a statement. The 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero and the country’s first black president has been in hospital three times since December and has been battling this … Continue reading “Nelson Mandela in ‘serious condition’ in Pretoria hospital”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1381,560,12250],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-hospital","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mandela911.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4915,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions\/4915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}