Pretoria - Activity at the Pretoria hospital where Nelson Mandela remains in a critical condition picked up on Tuesday morning after a quiet night.
Cars with military registration plates entered the gates of the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital. The gates were being manned by police and hospital security staff.
A wall at the Celliers Street entrance was adorned with pink and red flowers, balloons, and get-well cards. The wall has been turned into a miniature art gallery since the celebrated anti-apartheid icon was admitted to the hospital on June 8.
Pedestrians stopped to look at the mostly hand-made cards and read the messages in them.
Local and international journalists continued their vigil outside the hospital.
Mandela has been visited every day by several of his relatives, politicians, and government officials. - Sapa