{"id":6019,"date":"2013-06-25T03:47:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T03:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2013-06-25T03:47:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T03:47:53","slug":"less-activity-at-mandela-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6019","title":{"rendered":"Less activity at Mandela hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nelson Mandela<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A few vehicles were entering and exiting the Pretoria hospital on Tuesday morning where ailing former president Nelson Mandela is in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

Hospital security staff attended to the infrequent motorists at the facility’s entrance on Park Street.<\/p>\n

The main entrance on Celliers Street was still closed after 3am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Reporters and technical staff, camping on Celliers Street sidewalks, packed and departed after midnight.<\/p>\n

Vehicles belonging to media personnel were left parked near the hospital’s entrance. Private security guards kept an eye on the broadcast equipment.<\/p>\n

The usually busy Park Streets, where there is another entrance, was almost deserted. Patrolling police cars with flashing lights were seen at intervals.<\/p>\n

Several police officers could be seen inside the hospital.<\/p>\n

At midnight, several news crews made up of mainly international broadcasters, were doing live crossings near the Celliers Street entrance.<\/p>\n

Several generators for back-up power were running through the night and broadcasting equipment including huge lights and cameras had been set up.<\/p>\n

Numerous Mandela family members, politicians and government officials have been visiting the anti apartheid icon.<\/p>\n

Public Service and Administration Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and Madiba’s daughter Makaziwe, left the hospital on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Sisulu arrived at the hospital just after 6pm in a black Mercedes with blue flashing police lights. She and Makaziwe Mandela left just before 8pm.<\/p>\n

Some of Mandela’s relatives left the hospital earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

First seen leaving on Monday after a visit was grandson Ndaba Mandela, who arrived shortly after Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and daughter Zindzi Mandela-Motlhajwa.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa arrived separately at the hospital.<\/p>\n

On Sunday night presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement that Mandela’s condition had turned critical.<\/p>\n

Addressing the media in a briefing, which was initially scheduled as an off-the-record editors’ briefing, on Monday, President Jacob Zuma said Mandela’s condition had not changed.<\/p>\n

“Mandela remains in a critical condition in hospital and doctors are doing everything possible to ensure his well-being and comfort,” Zuma said in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

He and deputy African National Congress president Cyril Ramaphosa visited Mandela at the hospital on Sunday night. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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