{"id":94533,"date":"2015-07-18T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=94533"},"modified":"2015-07-18T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T14:00:21","slug":"73593","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/07\/18\/73593\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Memories in the last years of Mandela\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Mandela announced he would be stepping down from public life on June 1, 2004; a year after he established the Mandela Rhodes Foundation.<\/li>\n<li>In 2009, he votes for the fourth time in his life; he attended the inauguration of President Jacob Zuma on May 9 and witnessed Zuma\u2019s first State of the Nation address.<\/li>\n<li>He was formally presented with the Fifa World Cup trophy before it embarked on a tour of South Africa in 2010.<\/li>\n<li>During the final of the FIFA World Cup, he made a surprise appearance at the final in Soweto.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jngGbbjddHg' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>His second book, Conversations with Myself was published on October 12, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>He meets the South African and American football teams that played in the Nelson Mandela Challenge match in November 2010.<\/li>\n<li>First signs of his ill health; he was admitted to hospital in Johannesburg and discharged after two nights.<\/li>\n<li>On June 27, 2011 his book Nelson Mandela by Himself: the Authorised Book of Quotations is launched.<\/li>\n<li>America\u2019s First Lady, Michelle Obama, and her daughters paid him a visit on June 21, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Planning to spend more time at a place where he grew up, he spent his 93rd birthday with family and friends in Qunu. He spent Christmas in the Eastern Cape the same year.<\/li>\n<li>He was officially counted during South Africa\u2019s Census in 2011.<\/li>\n<li>He was admitted to hospital on February 25, 2012 and discharged the next day.<\/li>\n<li>He celebrated his 94th Birthday in Qunu, the Eastern Cape.<\/li>\n<li>In December 2012, he was admitted to hospital as he suffered from a lung infection. His stay in hospital prompted the family to suggest that he moves to Johannesburg, closer to the health care he needs.<\/li>\n<li>He spends New Year\u2019s Day with members of his family in Johannesburg.<\/li>\n<li>On March 9, 2013, he was admitted to hospital.<\/li>\n<li>On March 10, 2013, he was discharged from hospital.<\/li>\n<li>On March 27, 2103 he was admitted to hospital.<\/li>\n<li>On April 6, 2013 he was discharged from hospital.<\/li>\n<li>On June 8, he was rushed to a hospital in Pretoria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XpXS0jpr7tI' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>During his stay in hospital, his longtime friend, Andrew Mlangeni urges the family and friends to let Madiba go.<\/li>\n<li>On Wednesday June 26, President Jacob Zuma cancelled his trip to Mozambique after visiting Mandela in hospital.<\/li>\n<li>On July 18, 2013 he spent his 95th birthday in hospital.<\/li>\n<li>He was discharged from hospital September 1, after the doctors said they wanted him to receive care from his home in Johannesburg.<\/li>\n<li>Nelson Mandela passed away on December 5, 2013 and he was given a State Funeral in Qunu on December 15, 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='f56766ef62b1d6867e6ace4bfc82c82e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandela was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2001, two years after stepping down as president of South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":94534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,7908,2],"tags":[1648,3213,1245,1260,3997,2362],"class_list":["post-94533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-mandela-day-news","category-news-headlines","tag-gauteng","tag-johannesburg","tag-mandela-day-news-2","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-nelson-mandela-foundation","tag-south-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Gauteng","Johannesburg","Mandela Day","nelson mandela","nelson mandela foundation","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}