{"id":13226,"date":"2012-08-06T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/rpt-clinton-visits-s-africas-mandela-at-his-rural-home\/"},"modified":"2012-08-06T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T12:10:09","slug":"rpt-clinton-visits-s-africas-mandela-at-his-rural-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rpt-clinton-visits-s-africas-mandela-at-his-rural-home\/","title":{"rendered":"RPT-Clinton visits S.Africa&#8217;s Mandela at his rural home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds reporting credit)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mandela, in failing health, receives few visitors<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* U.S. Secretary of State is friend of the ex-president<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>QUNU, South Africa, Aug 6 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Secretary of<br \/>\nState Hillary Clinton met her friend and former South African<br \/>\nPresident Nelson Mandela at his country home on Monday, taking a<br \/>\nbreak from her multi-nation trade and security tour through<br \/>\nAfrica.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mandela, in failing health, has only seen a few visitors<br \/>\noutside his family in recent years. He met Hillary&#8217;s husband and<br \/>\nformer U.S. President Bill Clinton last month for the 94th<br \/>\nbirthday of the anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize<br \/>\nlaureate.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton was greeted at the salmon-coloured house set<br \/>\namid rolling hills by Mandela&#8217;s wife Graca Machel.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mandela&#8217;s single term as president from 1994 to 1999 came<br \/>\nduring the Clinton presidency, with Mandela and the Clintons<br \/>\nmeeting often during the period.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton, then first lady, was one of the leaders of<br \/>\nthe U.S. delegation for Mandela&#8217;s inauguration as South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nfirst democratically elected president, calling it a &#8220;milestone<br \/>\nof the 20th century&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was on the verge of tears the whole time,&#8221; she said just<br \/>\nafter the event in 1994.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds reporting credit) * Mandela, in failing health, receives few visitors * U.S. Secretary of State is friend of the ex-president QUNU, South Africa, Aug 6 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met her friend and former South African President Nelson Mandela at his country home on Monday, taking a break from her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}