Thursday 27 June 2013

[wanabidii] Very Delicate Moment..........



Truely sombre and extremely very delicate moment but with 
mixed feelings and reactions.......


Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
 
 
 
 
 
Mandela critical but stable: family
Published on Jun 27, 2013
Nelson Mandela's family have emerged from the hospital where he is staying to say that he is in a...
 
 
 

 
Mandela 'Stable' And 'Trying To Open Eyes'
Published on Jun 27, 2013

Mandela 'Stable' And 'Trying To Open Eyes'
The President says Nelson Mandela's condition has improved overnight, as the icon's daughter slams media "vultures".
Nelson Mandela's daughter has hit out at "racists" and "vultures" in the media, as the presidency says the anti-apartheid icon has improved overnight.

After visiting him in his Pretoria hospital, Makaziwe Mandela said her father - who is reportedly no longer able to breathe unassisted - is still "very critical".

"Anything is imminent, but I want to emphasise again that it is only God who knows when the time to go is," she told the public broadcaster SABC.

"I won't lie, it doesn't look good. But as I say, if we speak to him, he responds and tries to open his eyes.


South Africans have gathered outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital

"He's still there. He might be waning off, but he's still there."

She also criticised the "crass" media frenzy, likening the media to vultures.

"It's like truly vultures waiting when a lion has devoured a buffalo, waiting there you know for the last carcasses, that's the image that we have as a family," she said.

"And we don't mind the interest but I just think that it has gone overboard."


Balloons were released outside the hospital

She also accused the foreign media of "a racist element" by crossing cultural boundaries.

"They violate all boundaries," she said.

"Is it because we're an African country that people just feel they can't respect any laws of this country, they can violate everything in the book? I just think it's in bad taste, it's crass."

Her comments come as South African President Jacob Zuma also visited Mr Mandela, saying the ailing former leader remained critical but stable.

"He is much better today than he was when I saw him last night. The medical team continues to do a sterling job," Mr Zuma said in a statement.


Crowds have been singing and dancing outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital

The President abruptly cancelled a trip to Mozambique after making a late night visit to the revered former leader.

It is the first time Mr Zuma has scrapped a public engagement since Mr Mandela entered hospital on June 8.

South Africans have been praying, singing and dancing outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital, where the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader was taken with a recurring lung infection.

Sky News Correspondent Alex Crawford, who is outside the hospital, said the mood is celebratory.


Michelle Obama and her daughters met Mr Mandela during a trip in 2011

A group of children released 95 white balloons after praying for the Nobel Peace Prize winner.

"There seems to be a determined effort to actually celebrate what Nelson Mandela has achieved throughout his life and pay homage to the fact that he is engaged in yet another fight right to the end," Crawford said.

US President Barack Obama, who is in Senegal for his first significant tour of Africa, has paid tribute to Mr Mandela, saying he is a "hero for the world" whose legacy will live on throughout the ages.

Mr Obama is planning to visit South Africa on Friday as part of his African tour.

The White House has said that it will defer to Mr Mandela's family over whether the President would visit his political hero in hospital.

The two men met in 2005 when Mr Obama was a newly elected senator and the former South African president was in Washington and have spoken by telephone since.

They have not met in person since then, although Michelle Obama met with Mr Mandela during a trip in 2011.

 
 
 
Mandela 'Stable' And 'Trying To Open Eyes'
Published on Jun 27, 2013

The President says Nelson Mandela's condition has improved overnight, as the icon's daughter slams media "vultures".

 
 
 
 
Mandela Is Dead
Published on Jun 26, 2013

Long live the King.

It seems like yesterday when I heard Tata was out of prison. Mixed emotions went through my mind! what does this mean for us South Africans & all Africans. Joy filled my heart and i actually cried at the thought of him been jailed for all those years just for me and my nation to be freed from slavery. I salute you Tata, not many people would have done it..............you are a Hero to me and for all peoples.
To the world in general and most south africans in particular, you were not only a beacon of hope for what human kind can achieve and be, but you are a symbol of the potential human beings have. Words alone cannot begin to express the profound and deep-seated pride and emotions we have when we think of you, for you and your generation are an embodiment of what the South Africa was meant to be. Your image and memory will remain etched on our conscious for time immemorial.

For most good men it is hard enough to be a father to one child, but to father a nation is a kind of miracle that only comes from (and grows with) wisdom, love and the heart of hero. Madiba, you changed our lives in ways you will never know. I am proud of my beliefs and strong enough to stand up for them because you showed me that being afraid doesn't matter but doing the right thing, standing up to be counted is what matters. And if you have a voice it's your duty to speak up for yourself and those who cannot.

Hamba Kahle Ntate. Siyabonga khakulu!

 
 
 
 
Zuma- Nelson Mandela makes progress (2)
Published on Jun 14, 2013

Zuma- Nelson Mandela makes progress (2)

 
 
 
 
Video- Jacob Zuma issues warning over Nelson Mandela's 'superficial' legacy - Telegraph
Published on Jun 14, 2013

Video- Jacob Zuma issues warning over Nelson Mandela's 'superficial' legacy - Telegraph

 
 
 
 

Nelson Mandela Life Support Shut Down as Respected Humanitarian Dies Age 94

Nelson Mandela Dead at 94

A reliable source has revealed that Nelson Mandela's life support machine was shut down and he has died in the hospital aged 94. According to the source, the iconic Mandela died last night while he was still in the hospital for the recurring lung infection that left him in critical condition for several days.

Rumors have flooded the newspapers and the internet with several sources reporting his death days earlier in a cruel attempt to fool the public and to upset the many people who have respect for this great humanitarian. The loss of the great man will be felt across the world.

Earlier today one of our writers, Laura Oneale, wrote an article questioning whether or not Nelson Mandela was still alive. He had been in the hospital 19 days for a recurring lung infection. As speculation surrounding his health continued to grow with many asking whether he was still alive or if, in fact, he had died. Until recently authorities would only confirm that he was on a life support system and remained in a critical condition.

Authorities have confirmed that Nelson Mandela has been taken off his life support machine, adding fuel to the speculation that he had died. Because of this, the rumor has been spreading that Nelson Mandela died last night and that the government and his family have "kept a lid" on the news because of American President Obama's upcoming trip to South Africa. Obviously, the president's visit will be overshadowed by the announcement of the Nobel Prize winning Mandela.

The Nobel Prize winning humanitarian Nelson Mandela had his life support shut down after he died last night aged 94 at the end of a long battle with illness that ended with his hospitalization and finally his death. While his health problems started in 2011, it was the summer of this year when his condition worsened.

In February 2011, he was briefly hospitalized with a respiratory infection, attracting international attention. He was then re-hospitalized for a lung infection and gallstone removal in December 2012. After his successful medical procedure in March 2013 did not prevent his lung infection from recurring he was briefly hospitalized in Pretoria.

On June 8, 2013, his lung infection worsened and he was re-hospitalized in Pretoria in a serious condition. After four days, it was reported that he had stabilized and that he remained in a "serious, but stable condition".

While on his way to the hospital, the ambulance carrying Mandela broke down and was stranded on the roadside for 40 minutes. The South African government was criticized for the incident when it confirmed the report weeks later. President Jacob Zuma protested: "There were seven doctors in the convoy who were in full control of the situation throughout the period. He had expert medical care."

On June 22, 2013 CBS News reported that Mandela had not opened his eyes in days and that he was unresponsive. The family began discussing just how much medical intervention should be given.

On June 23, 2013 President Jacob Zuma issued a statement saying that Mandela's condition had become "critical." Zuma, who was accompanied by the Deputy President of the ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa, met with Mandela's wife Graca Machel at the hospital in Pretoria and discussed his condition.

On June 25, 2013, Cape Town Archbishop Thabo Makgoba visited Mandela at the hospital and prayed with Graca Machel Mandela "at this hard time of watching and waiting."

On June 26, 2013, Nelson Mandela was taken off life support after his condition deteriorated further. Sources have said that the 94 year-old Mandela died last night after his life support was shut down.

The Las Vegas Guardian Express writer Laura Oneale also wrote that in Qunu, the home town of Nelson Mandela, his family got together with the elders to discuss specific events surrounding the well-being of Mandela. It has been confirmed that they were talking about highly sensitive issues.

The grandson of Nelson Mandela angrily left the meeting over a disagreement of where the former president was to be buried. Mandela's daughter, who was seen wearing a red blanket, and other family members were at the gravesite. It has been reported that the "red blanket" is part of a tribal ceremony of the Xhosa. According to Xhosa custom the blanket is used when a family member has died.

Later in the same day, gravediggers arrived at the Mandela burial site.

Sources have confirmed that Nelson Mandela died last night after his life support was shut down and the respected iconic humanitarian has died age 94. Details of the funeral arrangements will be released when they become available.

By Michael Smith

Mandela's daughter slams media 'vultures'

Date
June 28, 2013

Nelson Mandela's oldest daughter has slammed the ''crass'' media frenzy around her critically ill father, likening the press to vultures.
Makaziwe Mandela accused the foreign media of ''a racist element'' by crossing cultural boundaries and being a ''nuisance'' at her father's Pretoria hospital where he is on life support.
''It's like truly vultures waiting when a lion has devoured a buffalo, waiting there you know for the last carcasses, that's the image that we have as a family,'' Makaziwe Mandela told the state broadcaster SABC. ''And we don't mind the interest but I just think that it has gone overboard.''
Family members of ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela try to maneuvre through the media outside the hospital.
Family members of ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela try to maneuver through the media outside the hospital. Photo: Reuters
As well as staking out the hospital, journalists had also camped out during the family's visit this week to Mandela's childhood village, in the rural Eastern Cape.
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''They violate all boundaries,'' she said. ''Is it because we're an African country that people just feel they can't respect any laws of this country, they can violate everything in the book? I just think it's in bad taste, it's crass."
Updates on Mandela's health are strictly controlled via the South African presidency but this has not stopped hordes of foreign and local media flocking to his hospital, village of Qunu and his Johannesburg home.
Makaziwe Mandela arrives on at the Medi Clinic Heart hospital in Pretoria.
Makaziwe Mandela arrives on at the Medi Clinic Heart hospital in Pretoria. Photo: AFP
Mandela said her father's status as a global icon did not mean that his privacy and dignity should not be respected.
''Tata (father) deserves his privacy and dignity and this family deserves that,'' she said. ''And if people say they really care about Nelson Mandela, then they should respect that, then they should respect that there's a part of him that has to be respected.
''It doesn't mean that everything of his has to be out there in the public. I don't think so, I don't agree with that.''

Trip cancelled

South African President Jacob Zuma cancelled a trip to neighbouring Mozambique after visiting Mandela, 94, in hospital in Pretoria, on Wednesday, and returning for another visit on Thursday. Mandela was admitted to the intensive-care unit on June 8 to receive treatment for a recurring lung infection.
''President Zuma was briefed by the doctors who are still doing everything they can to ensure his wellbeing,'' the Presidency said in an emailed statement on Thursday. Mandela is ''still in a critical condition,'' it said.
Hundreds of South Africans, many of them children, have been flocking to the hospital, leaving cards, balloons, flowers and messages of support for the former president.
''Our thoughts and prayers right now are with the people of South Africa,'' US President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to arrive in the southern African nation late on Friday for an official visit, told reporters in Dakar, Senegal. Mandela is ''a hero for the world. His legacy is one that will linger on throughout the ages''.

Mandela responds

Mandela continues to open his eyes and respond to touch, his daughter Makaziwe told the state-owned SAfm radio station on Thursday.
''I can reiterate that Tata is very critical,'' she said, using the Xhosa word for father. ''Anything is imminent. It's only God who knows when the time to goes is.''
Zuma, was scheduled to attend an infrastructure conference hosted by the Southern African Development Community in Mozambique's capital, Maputo. He decided to cancel his trip after visiting Mandela on Wednesday night and speaking to his doctors, Zuma's spokesman, Mac Maharaj, told SAfm. Mandela's condition had deteriorated in the past 48 hours, he said.
Mandela, who turns 95 next month, became the president of the continent's largest economy after his African National Congress won all-race elections in 1994.
He spent 27 years in jail for opposing white-minority rule and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Doctors downgraded Mandela's condition to critical on June 23. He is on life support machines to help him breathe, the London-based Daily Telegraph reported, citing Napilisi Mandela, a member of Mandela's clan.

Tributes build

Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, who prayed with Mandela's family at the hospital yesterday, said South Africans may be ''afraid to let him go because he has been such an icon and a wonderful human being,'' he told the Johannesburg-based Times newspaper.

A tide of emotional tributes has built on social media and in handwritten messages and flowers laid outside the hospital and Mr Mandela's home. On Wednesday, about 20 children from a daycare centre posted a handmade card outside the hospital and recited a poem.
''Hold on, old man,'' was one of the lines in the Zulu poem.

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