1
Military Hospital on Saturday. Military Police were still guarding
the entrance of the hospital despite rumors that Mandela was
discharged.
Sunday, 16 December 2012
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Mandela underwent procedure to remove gallstones
Pretoria: South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela on
Saturday underwent a successful procedure to remove gall stones, a week
after he was admitted to hospital for a lung infection, the office of
the president said.
According to the statement Mandela underwent a procedure via endoscopy to have the gall stones removed at unknown private hospital this morning 15 December 2012 ," it said in a statement.
"The procedure was successful and Madiba is recovering," it added, using the clan name by which Mandela is affectionately known.
It is reported that the 94-year-old is being treated at a private
hospital in the capital Pretoria. Initial tests revealed that he was
suffering from a recurring lung infection
He was previously hospitalised for an acute respiratory infection in January 2011, when he was kept for two nights.
Mandela has a long history of lung problems dating back decades to when he contracted tuberculosis while in prison.
According to the statement Mandela underwent a procedure via endoscopy to have the gall stones removed at unknown private hospital this morning 15 December 2012 ," it said in a statement.
"The procedure was successful and Madiba is recovering," it added, using the clan name by which Mandela is affectionately known.
According to inside sources Mandela was operated at Medi Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria this morning and was later sent back to 1 Military Hospital
"The medical team
decided to attend to a lung infection before determining when to attend
to the gall stones", the statement from the presidency said.
He was previously hospitalised for an acute respiratory infection in January 2011, when he was kept for two nights.
Mandela has a long history of lung problems dating back decades to when he contracted tuberculosis while in prison.
Mandela undergoes procedure to remove gallstones
The Presidency wishes to provide the following update from the doctors treating former President Nelson Mandela:The former President was hospitalized on 8 December 2012 for a series of tests to be carried out by the doctors. The tests revealed that there was a recurrence of the lung infection and that Madiba had developed gall stones. The medical team decided to attend to a lung infection before determining when to attend to the gall stones.This morning, 15 December 2012, the former president underwent a procedure via endoscopy to have the gall stones removed. The procedure was successful and Madiba is recovering.President Jacob Zuma, on behalf of all South Africans, wishes Madiba speedy recovery.We wish to once again appeal for privacy for Madiba and family.
Tight security at Mangaung
Security at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, where
the ruling ANC was holding its national conference, has been beefed up.
Journalists were scheduled to have a meeting with organisers this morning but on arrival they were refused entrance onto the campus.
Reporters had to park their cars outside campus and walk.
All entrances to the university were guarded by police officers.
Police at the entrances said cars needed to be searched and checked at the Tempe Military Base. Each vehicle would then receive a clearance sticker which would allow them access to the campus.
Service providers and ambulances were also turned away because they did not have clearance stickers.
The African National Congress’s national conference starts tomorrow.
source – Sapa
Journalists were scheduled to have a meeting with organisers this morning but on arrival they were refused entrance onto the campus.
Reporters had to park their cars outside campus and walk.
All entrances to the university were guarded by police officers.
Police at the entrances said cars needed to be searched and checked at the Tempe Military Base. Each vehicle would then receive a clearance sticker which would allow them access to the campus.
Service providers and ambulances were also turned away because they did not have clearance stickers.
The African National Congress’s national conference starts tomorrow.
source – Sapa
andela still being treated in undisclosed hospital
Nelson Mandela remained in hospital on Saturday, a week after he was
admitted for treatment for a lung infection, a government official said.
According to the presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj Mandela is still in hospital, still comfortable and receiving treatment.
However Maharaj could not comment on rumours that the 94-year-old could be soon being discharged from Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital, a private facility in the capital Pretoria.
It was not clear when Mandela was moved to the private hospital from the One Military one, the country's top military healthcare facility where government officials initially said Mandela was being treated.
The Heart Hospital bills itself as the first and "only hospital of its kind a private, specialised heart hospital."
According to the presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj Mandela is still in hospital, still comfortable and receiving treatment.
However Maharaj could not comment on rumours that the 94-year-old could be soon being discharged from Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital, a private facility in the capital Pretoria.
It was not clear when Mandela was moved to the private hospital from the One Military one, the country's top military healthcare facility where government officials initially said Mandela was being treated.
The Heart Hospital bills itself as the first and "only hospital of its kind a private, specialised heart hospital."
Journalists Search for Nelson Mandela
Mandela is in the hospital and for the past five days journalists in South Africa have camping outside Military 1 hospital in Pretoria reporting on his condition just to be told that they were at the wrong hospital.
Just yesterday reporters learned that they were at the wrong site when the presidency spokesman Mac Maharaj inform them that the former president was at a separate unidentified hospital.”
The mix-up occurred amid rumors that Mandela had died, which his spokesman denied, but neither the family nor the government are disclosing his location.
However government still persist that Mandela was still receiving treatment in hospital.
“The doctors attending to former president Nelson Mandela report that he has had a comfortable 24 hours and that he remains under treatment in hospital,” said presidency spokesman Mac Maharaj.
He said doctors had not given any information about when he might be released.
Rainy weather has not discouraged news crews camping outside the Hospital in Pretoria, in an attempt to get updates on Mandela’s health.
Mandela is believed to be recuperating in the private institution, despite confirmation on Monday by Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula that the statesman was at a military facility.
Yesterday, journalists from local and international media parked their vehicles along Celliers Street, overlooking the private hospital’s main entrance.
Among the media there was the Eyewitness News (EWN) team which reported that: “The name of the hospital is known by Eyewitness News, but this is not being released to respect Madiba’s dignity.”
That report shifted attention from the 1 Military Hospital at the Thaba Tshwane Military Base where the media had been camping since last weekend.
Since yesterday morning, the number of journalists kept increasing at Mediclinic as details of the reported new hospital filtered through.
At around midday, a convoy of three black vehicles with police lights and sirens entered the Mediclinic Heart Hospital.
Hospital security barred journalists from following the cars into the premises.
Moments later, the vehicles came out escorting a fourth one – a black military ambulance with yellow army number plates.
At that stage reporters at the scene were speculating that Madiba may have been discharged.
However, journalists stationed at the 1 Military Hospital across town reported that the convoy entered the state facility after leaving the private hospital.
EWN reported on Thursday that Mandela (94) was not receiving treatment at the military facility as had been widely reported after Mapisa-Nqakula’s interview.
Mapisa-Nqakula spoke to reporters outside 1 Military Hospital after seemingly visiting Mandela there.
At the time, she said: “He’s doing very, very well and it is important to keep him in our prayers and also to be as calm as possible and not cause a state of panic, because I think that is not what all of us need.”
The presidency said it had not been the government’s intention to mislead the public or the media.
Maharaj said he had only stated Mandela had been admitted to a Pretoria hospital.
“It is not part of any strategy or tactic by government to mislead the public. We have never had that intention. We know to keep to the facts and we’ve been rigorous,” he said in an interview on Talk Radio 702.
The Beeld newspaper reported that Mandela had been admitted under a pseudonym, which was known to the newspaper.
Mandela was flown to Pretoria from his home in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape.
The presidency said he was suffering from the recurrence of a previous lung infection and was responding to treatment.
Mandela’s hospital stay is his longest continuous period in hospital since 2001, when he underwent seven weeks of radiotherapy after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He was 83 at the time.
In January 2011, Mandela was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for an acute respiratory infection. He had contracted tuberculosis while in prison.
Just yesterday reporters learned that they were at the wrong site when the presidency spokesman Mac Maharaj inform them that the former president was at a separate unidentified hospital.”
The mix-up occurred amid rumors that Mandela had died, which his spokesman denied, but neither the family nor the government are disclosing his location.
However government still persist that Mandela was still receiving treatment in hospital.
“The doctors attending to former president Nelson Mandela report that he has had a comfortable 24 hours and that he remains under treatment in hospital,” said presidency spokesman Mac Maharaj.
He said doctors had not given any information about when he might be released.
Rainy weather has not discouraged news crews camping outside the Hospital in Pretoria, in an attempt to get updates on Mandela’s health.
Mandela is believed to be recuperating in the private institution, despite confirmation on Monday by Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula that the statesman was at a military facility.
Yesterday, journalists from local and international media parked their vehicles along Celliers Street, overlooking the private hospital’s main entrance.
Among the media there was the Eyewitness News (EWN) team which reported that: “The name of the hospital is known by Eyewitness News, but this is not being released to respect Madiba’s dignity.”
That report shifted attention from the 1 Military Hospital at the Thaba Tshwane Military Base where the media had been camping since last weekend.
Since yesterday morning, the number of journalists kept increasing at Mediclinic as details of the reported new hospital filtered through.
At around midday, a convoy of three black vehicles with police lights and sirens entered the Mediclinic Heart Hospital.
Hospital security barred journalists from following the cars into the premises.
Moments later, the vehicles came out escorting a fourth one – a black military ambulance with yellow army number plates.
At that stage reporters at the scene were speculating that Madiba may have been discharged.
However, journalists stationed at the 1 Military Hospital across town reported that the convoy entered the state facility after leaving the private hospital.
EWN reported on Thursday that Mandela (94) was not receiving treatment at the military facility as had been widely reported after Mapisa-Nqakula’s interview.
Mapisa-Nqakula spoke to reporters outside 1 Military Hospital after seemingly visiting Mandela there.
At the time, she said: “He’s doing very, very well and it is important to keep him in our prayers and also to be as calm as possible and not cause a state of panic, because I think that is not what all of us need.”
The presidency said it had not been the government’s intention to mislead the public or the media.
Maharaj said he had only stated Mandela had been admitted to a Pretoria hospital.
“It is not part of any strategy or tactic by government to mislead the public. We have never had that intention. We know to keep to the facts and we’ve been rigorous,” he said in an interview on Talk Radio 702.
The Beeld newspaper reported that Mandela had been admitted under a pseudonym, which was known to the newspaper.
Mandela was flown to Pretoria from his home in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape.
The presidency said he was suffering from the recurrence of a previous lung infection and was responding to treatment.
Mandela’s hospital stay is his longest continuous period in hospital since 2001, when he underwent seven weeks of radiotherapy after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He was 83 at the time.
In January 2011, Mandela was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for an acute respiratory infection. He had contracted tuberculosis while in prison.
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Will Malawi might be probed into Samora Machel crash?
The South Africa's police
have launched a new investigation into the 1986 plane crash that killed
Mozambican leader Samora Machel.
Mr Machel's death plunged the region into crisis, as African governments accused South Africa's then-white rulers of assassinating him.
But South Africa government insisted that it had not killed Mr Machel.
South Africa's privately owned Times newspaper reports that President Jacob Zuma has sanctioned the inquiry launched by the elite police unit, the Hawks, following a tip-off in January.
His approval came on the strength of evidence obtained by investigators, including documents, photographs and voice recordings, it reports.
Capt Paul Ramaloko of the South African Police Service confirmed to the Associated Press news agency that an investigation had been launched, but gave no further details.
In 1987, South Africa's Judge Cecil Margo - assisted by US and UK experts - blamed negligence on the part of the plane's crew for the crash.
This is how Malawi can be linked on the death of the Mocambique president Samora Machel.
When the plane of Mozambique’s revolutionary leader, Samora Machel, crashed on the night of October 19, 1986 killing him and 34 others, Apartheid South Africa immediately blamed it on "pilot error".
"The Russian crew were high on Vodka," crowed Pik Botha, the then foreign minister.
Now a new investigation into the crash is proving too hot for South African government and other countries such as Malawi
Here is the events leading to Samora Machel's plane crash were Malawi was mentioned
The crash happened at a time when Mocambique government was in the midst of an armed attack by the National Resistance Movement in Mozambique (RENAMO). RENAMO was a rebel group backed by the South African and Rhodesian government. There was also mounting tension between South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi. The Mozambican Chief of Staff accused the President of Malawi, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, of setting up a base for RENAMO in tis territory and issuing the rebels with travel documents. One month prior to the crash, an angry Mozambican President Machel issued his Malawian counterpart with an ultimatum to stop his support for RENAMO. He threatened to seal off Mozambique's borders with Malawi.
On 7 October 1986, a fter six South African soldiers died in a landmine explosion on the Mocambique border, the SA Minister of Defence, Magnus Malan, threatened the Mozambican leader personally when he said, "He will clash head-on with South Africa." The two countries got embroiled in a bitter verbal exchange. Two weeks before the crash, the South African government accused Machel of having revived his support to the banned African National Congress (ANC) and its guerilla forces.
On 18 October, Carlos Cardosa, Director of the Mocambican News Agency Agência de Informação de Moçambique (AIM), received an anonymous message informing him that the President (Machel) had died. The message was very bizarre as Machel was preparing to leave for Zambia. On the same day before leaving for Zambia, Machel had convened a meeting with journalists, FRELIMO leaders and military officers. Machel announced that he had received information that the South Africans wanted to eliminate him. He gave instructions to his Cabinet and Party what had to be done if he failed to return.
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