{"id":9677,"date":"2013-08-27T05:51:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T05:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9677"},"modified":"2013-08-27T05:51:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T05:51:07","slug":"mandelas-grandson-hopes-for-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9677","title":{"rendered":"Mandela’s grandson hopes for miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"madiba\"<\/a>Days after the Presidency revealed that former President Nelson Mandela\u2019s condition was sometimes unstable his grandson Mbuso Mandela has said that he still hopes that Madiba will be able to leave hospital.<\/p>\n

Madiba has spent the past two and half months in the Pretoria Heart hospital, where he is being treated for a recurring lung infection.<\/p>\n

Former President Nelson Mandela\u2019s wife Graca Machel was supposed to speak at the Women of Excellence summit hosted by Madiba\u2019s grandson Mbuso, but, just hours before the event was due to begin, she cancelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said it\u2019s trying times at the moment so she won\u2019t be able to attend because she has to be elsewhere,\u201d said Mbuso.<\/p>\n

Two days ago, the Presidency revealed that Mandela\u2019s health did sometimes become unstable but stabilised after what has been referred to as \u201cmedical interventions\u201d. It added that doctors were working hard to bring about a turnaround in Madiba\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s 95 and there are not many people in this country and the rest of our continent that can actually reach that age and still be pretty compos mentis and still be able to look up, raise his hand and all that. So we must understand that he is old and we can\u2019t really have too much expectations of him living forever, even though everyone would love that. So would I,\u201d\u00a0said Mbuso.<\/p>\n

Mbuso Mandela says he understand the public\u2019s need for updates on his grandfather\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople need to remember that, when he became president of this great country, and he actually did what he did, he then became everybody\u2019s grandfather, everybody\u2019s father. He became the people\u2019s person. So, at the end of the day, we as a family must also understand that he is ours, but he is also our country\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, it seems, the media frenzy that surrounded Mandela\u2019s hospitalisation has become comparatively calm. – eNCA<\/p>\n

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Days after the Presidency revealed that former President Nelson Mandela\u2019s condition was sometimes unstable his grandson Mbuso Mandela has said that he still hopes that Madiba will be able to leave hospital. Madiba has spent the past two and half months in the Pretoria Heart hospital, where he is being treated for a recurring lung … Continue reading “Mandela’s grandson hopes for miracle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5540,5541,560,5539],"class_list":["post-9677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-graca-machel","tag-grandson-mbuso","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-pretoria-heart-hospital"],"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\/madiba.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677","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=9677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9679,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions\/9679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}