Pretoria - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of former president Nelson Mandela, on Tuesday afternoon arrived at the Pretoria hospital where he is being treated for a lung infection.
Madikizela-Mandela entered the Mediclinic Heart Hospital shortly after 3pm.
The ailing statesman received numerous visitors on Tuesday, including his eldest daughter Zenani Mandela and granddaughters Ndileka Mandela, Swati Dlamini and Zoleka Mandela.
His wife Graca Machel left the hospital just before 2pm and returned shortly before 4pm.
Mandela was spending his 46th day in the hospital, where he was admitted on June 8. Throughout the day, a handful of people arrived at the hospital to take pictures of the wall covered with tributes.
On Tuesday morning, children from creches in and around Johannesburg sang and prayed for Mandela outside the hospital. Mabel Godmother Phiri, the principal of one of the creches, said Mandela was a strong man.
“We are here to pray for Mandela and to say Mandela: 'Please stand up. We need you'.”
The children and their teachers sang and danced outside the hospital. Some of them held placards reading: “Madiba we love you”, and “Get well soon”. - Sapa