Less Activity Outside Mandela hospital

{{Activity has diminished outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital, in Pretoria, where former president Nelson Mandela spent his 48th day on Thursday.}}

Tshwane metro police still had Celliers Street cordoned off, but there was not a lot of traffic for them to direct.

Local and international media remained stationed outside both entrances to the hospital.

Street sweepers cleaned the pavements, and passers-by occasionally stopped to look at the wall of messages, flowers, banners, and flags left since the ailing icon was admitted on 8 June with a recurring lung infection.

The most recent update from the presidency was that Mandela’s condition was improving.

SAPA