{"id":6281,"date":"2013-06-27T11:35:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T11:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6281"},"modified":"2013-06-27T11:35:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T11:35:29","slug":"luxury-vehicles-with-blue-lights-arrive-at-mandela-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6281","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Luxury vehicles with blue lights&#8217; arrive at Mandela hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5146\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Mediclinic-Heart-Hospital-in-Pretoria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5146\" alt=\"The throng outside the Medi-clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Mediclinic-Heart-Hospital-in-Pretoria-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Mediclinic-Heart-Hospital-in-Pretoria-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Mediclinic-Heart-Hospital-in-Pretoria.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The throng outside the Medi-clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A convoy of four luxury vehicles fitted with blue lights arrived at the Pretoria hospital on Thursday where former president Nelson Mandela remains critically ill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three BMWs and a Mercedes-Benz Vito minivan passed through a security checkpoint at one of the hospital&#8217;s entrances. It could not immediately be confirmed whether President Jacob Zuma was in one of the cars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The convoy arrived not long after Mandela&#8217;s relatives left the hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The family members broke their usual visit routine and collected flowers well-wishers had placed outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ndileka Mandela, a granddaughter of the anti-apartheid icon, said he was in a critical, but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another grandchild, Zoleka Mandela, said it had been a tough time for the family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He&#8217;s stable, and we&#8217;d like to thank everyone for their support,&#8221; Zoleka Mandela said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ndileka Mandela said the public exposure had not been easy for the family to deal with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They&#8217;re [the family] anxious; he&#8217;s critical but stable. Lots of comfort from the messages of support. It&#8217;s harder going through this in the public eye.&#8221; &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A convoy of four luxury vehicles fitted with blue lights arrived at the Pretoria hospital on Thursday where former president Nelson Mandela remains critically ill. Three BMWs and a Mercedes-Benz Vito minivan passed through a security checkpoint at one of the hospital&#8217;s entrances. It could not immediately be confirmed whether President Jacob Zuma was in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Luxury vehicles with blue lights&#8217; arrive at Mandela hospital&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1381,327,3536,345],"class_list":["post-6281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-hospital","tag-mandela","tag-ndileka-mandela","tag-zuma"],"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\/Mediclinic-Heart-Hospital-in-Pretoria.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281","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=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6283,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions\/6283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}