{"id":24179,"date":"2013-07-15T22:34:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=24179"},"modified":"2013-07-15T22:34:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:34:04","slug":"mandela-to-be-allowed-home-as-he-continues-to-respond-positively-to-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=24179","title":{"rendered":"Mandela &#8216;to be allowed home&#8217; as he continues to respond positively to treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Nelson-Mandela.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24177\" alt=\"Nelson Mandela\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Nelson-Mandela.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Nelson-Mandela.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Nelson-Mandela-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a>Nelson Mandela will soon be discharged from hospital to recuperate at home, according to former South African president Thabo Mbeki.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am quite certain that one of these days Madiba (Mandela) will go back home,\u2019 he said at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Official statements that South Africa\u2019s first\u00a0 black president was critical but stable were correct, he said, at a memorial service in Pretoria on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Mandela\u2019s wife Gra\u00e7a Machel also said she was \u2018less anxious\u2019 about his condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He continues to respond positively to treatment. I would say that today I am less anxious than I was a week ago,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>The former apartheid campaigner has been hospitalised for more than five weeks for a recurring lung infection, which has led to four hospital stays in the last six months.<\/p>\n<p>Mandela, who was hospitalized on June 8, turns 95 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a close friend of Mandela contradicted the court reports that he was \u2018totally conscious\u2019 when he visited him in hospital this week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela will soon be discharged from hospital to recuperate at home, according to former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1795],"class_list":["post-24179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-mandela","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}