{"id":5138,"date":"2013-06-11T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2013-06-11T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:16:40","slug":"winnie-mandela-arrives-at-medi-clinic-heart-hospital-in-pretoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5138","title":{"rendered":"Winnie Mandela arrives at Medi-clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Winnie Mandela<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife, ANC MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela arrived on Tuesday at the Pretoria hospital where the ailing elder statesman is believed to be receiving treatment.<\/p>\n

She and her daughter Zindzi arrived after 3pm in a black Audi, escorted by a white Mercedes-Benz. Photographers tried to take photos of them through the car’s tinted windows.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the other two of Mandela’s three surviving children arrived at the hospital in separate cars.<\/p>\n

Makaziwe Mandela’s red Range Rover drove past numerous police officers at the hospital’s entrance. Her car was followed by that of Zenani Mandela, South Africa’s ambassador to Argentina.<\/p>\n

This was Mandela’s fourth day in hospital.<\/p>\n

The presidency said on Tuesday that the doctors treating Mandela had given President Jacob Zuma a thorough briefing on Monday night.<\/p>\n

“President Zuma has full confidence in the medical team, and is satisfied that they are doing their best to make Madiba better,” spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Mandela was still in a “serious but stable” condition.<\/p>\n

Maharaj dismissed media reports that Zuma would visit Mandela on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“That is incorrect. The president is in Cape Town preparing for the budget vote of the presidency,” he said.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the presidency announced that Mandela had been admitted to hospital in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the presidency said his condition was unchanged, and that he was receiving intensive care.<\/p>\n

Security at the hospital, in Arcadia, was tightened, with police officers manning its two entrances.<\/p>\n

Brigadier Phuti Setati earlier said the police at the hospital were part of the presidential protection services team, whose task included protecting former presidents.<\/p>\n

He did not specifically confirm that Mandela was in the hospital.<\/p>\n

Local and international media have camped outside the facility, and at Mandela’s Houghton, Johannesburg, home since Saturday.<\/p>\n

People continued leaving messages of support outside his home on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

A couple wearing T-shirts bearing the words “We love you Papa Mandela” and “We love you Papa Madiba” placed a teddy bear in a similar T-shirt at one of the sunken pot plants, where others had left messages of support on stones.<\/p>\n

A boy in school uniform hopped out of a car opposite the house’s gate to leave a large red envelope filled with letters, wishing Madiba the best, from a Grade Five class at the King Edward VII Preparatory School.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday morning, a group of children from the Rainbow Hill Christian School in Orange Grove arrived at the house and sang “Get well Tata Mandela, get well”.<\/p>\n

This is the third time this year the Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been hospitalised.<\/p>\n

At the end of March and in April, he spent nine days in hospital receiving treatment for recurring lung problems.<\/p>\n

Earlier in March, he was admitted to a Pretoria hospital for a scheduled check-up and was discharged the following day. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife, ANC MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela arrived on Tuesday at the Pretoria hospital where the ailing elder statesman is believed to be receiving treatment. She and her daughter Zindzi arrived after 3pm in a black Audi, escorted by a white Mercedes-Benz. Photographers tried to take photos of them through the car’s tinted windows. Earlier, … Continue reading “Winnie Mandela arrives at Medi-clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[327,139,12250,3034,3035],"class_list":["post-5138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-mandela","tag-pretoria","tag-south-africa","tag-winnie","tag-zenani-mandela"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mandela+winnie.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138","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=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5140,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions\/5140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}