{"id":6171,"date":"2013-06-26T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T09:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2013-06-26T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T09:01:06","slug":"abathembu-elders-to-decide-on-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6171","title":{"rendered":"AbaThembu elders to decide on Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/makaziwe_mandela.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6173\" alt=\"makaziwe_mandela\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/makaziwe_mandela-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/makaziwe_mandela-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/makaziwe_mandela.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A group of AbaThembu elders is preparing to fly to Gauteng to assess a critically ill Nelson Mandela and decide &#8220;what to do&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Times has learnt that at an urgent meeting called by Mandela&#8217;s eldest daughter, Makaziwe, at his home in Qunu in the Eastern Cape yesterday, it was decided that the elders and Mandela&#8217;s confidants would visit the former president in the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a CBS News report, the former statesman &#8211; who has been in the hospital for 18 days with a lung infection &#8211; was &#8221;unresponsive and has not opened his eyes for days&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the local chiefs said Mandela spokesman Nkosi Bhekizulu Mnqanqeni and possibly Nkosi Bhovulengwe Mfundo Mtirara would be among the elders who would assess Mandela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are likely to fly to Johannesburg today and head straight to Mandela&#8217;s bedside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Family elder Napilisi Mandela confirmed they would discuss delicate matters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A chief said: &#8220;They want to visit Tata himself and discuss what should be done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last night, Nkosi Mtirara would say only that yesterday&#8217;s gathering was &#8220;a family meeting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But The Times understands that this meeting, the first of its kind, focused not only on Mandela&#8217;s health but also on the moving of family graves from Qunu to Mvezo in 2011. The graves were moved by Mandela&#8217;s grandson, Chief Mandla Mandela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vehicles transporting family members also visited the guarded burial site. The entourage spent almost 30 minutes looking around before moving back to the house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting adjourned at 12.30pm and the family was rushed back to the airport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was, however, little activity at Mvezo Great Place yesterday, other than the installation of a new steel gate at the entrance. &#8211; timeslive.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of AbaThembu elders is preparing to fly to Gauteng to assess a critically ill Nelson Mandela and decide &#8220;what to do&#8221;. The Times has learnt that at an urgent meeting called by Mandela&#8217;s eldest daughter, Makaziwe, at his home in Qunu in the Eastern Cape yesterday, it was decided that the elders and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AbaThembu elders to decide on Mandela&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3404,327,562],"class_list":["post-6171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-abathembu-king-buyelekhaya-zwelibanzi-dalindyebo","tag-mandela","tag-qunu"],"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\/makaziwe_mandela.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171","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=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6175,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions\/6175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}