Family, ex-wife visit Mandela in hospital, ANC youth pay tribute to ailing leader

(16 Jun 2013)
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Pretoria
1. Wide of vehicle (white car) carrying Ndileka Mandela, granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, arriving at Mediclinic Heart Hospital
2. Top shot of Ndileka Mandela walking through car park
3. Ndileka Mandela entering hospital building
4. Close of sign reading "Mediclinic Heart Hospital"
5. Close of vehicle (red Range Rover) carrying Makaziwe Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, arriving at hospital
6. Wide top shot of Makaziwe Mandela (yellow trousers) walking through car park with unidentified woman
7. Makaziwe Mandela entering hospital building
8. Top shot of police checkpoint in front of hospital
9. Wide of hospital
10. Wide of vehicle (black car) carrying family members arriving at hospital
11. Various of unidentified young woman in car park with gift basket
12. Young woman joined by Mandela daughter Zenani Mandela-Dlamini (pinkish beret and black coat), also carrying gift baskets
13. The two women walk up to hospital entrance, where Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is waiting for them (grey coat, black trousers)
14. Side view of women entering hospital
Soweto
15. Mid of memorial outside the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, remembering the young people who marched through Soweto on June 16, 1976
16. Wide of schoolchildren standing in front of the Hector Pieterson memorial
17. Various of children singing in front of memorial
18. Mid of Hector Pieterson memorial
19. Close of message on memorial
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lee-Ann Foster, 24 years old, celebrating Youth Day:
"It's a bit strange that he's not here to celebrate with us as he has done so much for the struggle. But I think that we should all just be grateful and appreciate what he's done thus far for us and pray for a speedy recovery."
21. Wide of people singing in front of the memorial
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ahmed Kathrada, friend of Nelson Mandela:
"Well you know, we all wish and pray that he'll be with us forever and ever. But he's a human being after all. And our prayers, as much as they help, we know we have to accept the inevitable one day."
23. Various of Kathrada standing for photographs
STORYLINE:
Family members of Nelson Mandela continued to arrive on Sunday at the Pretoria Heart hospital where the former South African president is believed to be being treated for a lung infection.
Among those visiting on Sunday were Mandela's granddaughter Ndileka Mandela, his daughter Makaziwe Mandela, and his former wife Winnie Mandela.
In front of the Pretoria Mediclinic Heart Hospital meanwhile, well wishers left notes as police maintained their presence at the building's entrances.
There has been no official update on Mandela's condition since Thursday, when the government said he was improving though remained in serious condition.
His grandson Mandla Mandela said on Saturday that when he saw his grandfather in Pretoria earlier that day, there had been a visible improvement in his health.
The leader of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, Mandela spent 27 years in prison during white racist rule before being freed in 1990 and becoming South Africa's first black president in 1994.
Mandela, who is 94 years old, was treated in a hospital several times in recent months, with the last discharge coming on April 6 after doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia and drained fluid from his lung area.
He has been particularly vulnerable to respiratory problems since contracting tuberculosis during his 27-year imprisonment under apartheid.
Police retaliated against the young marchers with live ammunition and Hector Pieterson, a youth of 13 years old, was killed in the crossfire.
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