{"id":8916,"date":"2013-08-12T06:46:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T06:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8916"},"modified":"2013-08-12T06:48:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T06:48:06","slug":"police-search-all-vehicles-entering-mandela-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8916","title":{"rendered":"Police search all vehicles entering Mandela hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/samandela.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8917\" alt=\"South Africa Mandela\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/samandela-300x164.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/samandela-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/samandela.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Police officers were searching all vehicles entering the Pretoria hospital where former president Nelson Mandela&#8217;s was receiving treatment on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital&#8217;s two entrances, on Park and Celliers Streets were manned by SA Police Services members and security guards since Mandela was admitted to the private facility on June 8 with a recurring lung infection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Motorists were being requested to open their boots as the cars were searched at the hospital&#8217;s security check-points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two vehicles of the Tshwane metro police were stationed near the entrances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some well-wishers arrived at the Celliers Street entrance and read the numerous get-well-soon messages posted on the \u00a0hospital&#8217;s security wall. A collection of flags, bouquets of flowers and multi-coloured paintings adorned the hospital&#8217;s walls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Sunday, the Presidency announced that Mandela, 95, was slowly but steadily improving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The medical team also reiterated that although his health was improving steadily, Madiba still remains in a critical condition,&#8221; spokesperson, Mac Maharaj said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former terrorist has been critically ill in hospital for over two months. He is now entering his third month and 65th day in hospital. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers were searching all vehicles entering the Pretoria hospital where former president Nelson Mandela&#8217;s was receiving treatment on Sunday. The Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital&#8217;s two entrances, on Park and Celliers Streets were manned by SA Police Services members and security guards since Mandela was admitted to the private facility on June 8 with a recurring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8916\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Police search all vehicles entering Mandela hospital&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3401,560,4997],"class_list":["post-8916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-critical","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-stable"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/samandela.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916","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=8916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8920,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions\/8920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}