{"id":6272,"date":"2013-06-27T10:52:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T10:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6272"},"modified":"2013-06-27T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T10:52:56","slug":"mandela-needs-ancestors-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6272","title":{"rendered":"‘Mandela needs ancestors’ help’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Traditional healers in Limpopo held a ceremony at the ANC’s offices in Polokwane on Thursday to pray for former president Nelson Mandela who is critically ill in a Pretoria hospital.<\/p>\n

African National Congress Limpopo task team chairman Falaza Mdaka said the traditional healers had asked to perform a ritual at the offices, as it was Mandela’s “home”.<\/p>\n

Mdaka said Mandela was a special person and the world still needed him.<\/p>\n

“We are pleading for him to continue to be with us. We understand that he is old,” he said.<\/p>\n

Tradition healers sang struggle songs and burnt incense, calling on the ancestors to heal the country’s beloved statesman.<\/p>\n

“Mandela needs ancestors’ help,” said one of the healers, Sylvester Hlathi.<\/p>\n

Mandela, 94, was admitted to the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria on June 8 for treatment of a recurring lung infection.<\/p>\n

The presidency has said that his condition remains critical. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traditional healers in Limpopo held a ceremony at the ANC’s offices in Polokwane on Thursday to pray for former president Nelson Mandela who is critically ill in a Pretoria hospital. African National Congress Limpopo task team chairman Falaza Mdaka said the traditional healers had asked to perform a ritual at the offices, as it was … Continue reading “‘Mandela needs ancestors’ help’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2242,327,877,3534],"class_list":["post-6272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-health","tag-mandela","tag-sangoma","tag-traditional-healers"],"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\/bonecaster.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272","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=6272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6276,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions\/6276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}