Sensitive family meeting on Mandela's health

Former president Nelson Mandela's eldest daughter Makaziwe is in Qunu in the Eastern Cape  where she has called an urgent and important family meeting. She is accompanied by her sister Zenani and Madiba's grandson Ndaba as well as  Public Service and Administration Minister Lindiwe Sisulu. UDM leader Bantu Holomisa arrived earlier on a separate flight. It is understood that  such a meeting takes place in the Xhosa culture when a family member is critically ill.  According to the inside source the critical Mandela is on life support machine and the family will  decide on whether they should let him go by switching off the machine. Most of the time only the family members are allowed to make such a decision in situations like this. However  Mandela's elder daughter Makaziwe Mandela told a local newspaper that the family is  not ready to let Mandela go. She said currently the family  is taking it one day at a time to decide on Mandela's life. She also told CNN that in her culture (Tembu) "you never a person unless her or she has told you so" She said the people who talk about letting him go must know that they haven't come to the end yet. " It is only God who knows the end, said Makaziwe She said whether these were the last moments for them to be with their father or whether they will see  him for many more years, the people must stand back. On Sunday, the Presidency said that Madiba's health had deteriorated and that he was in critical  condition. There's been no update on Mandela's condition since then. In the meantime, media presence has continue to grow at the Pretoria hospital where Madiba is being  treated. Well-wishers have turned the security wall of the hospital into a miniature art gallery since the celebrated anti-apartheid icon was admitted to the facility earlier this month. This is the fourth admission and one of Mandela’s longest hospital stays since December last year.

special family meeting was called in the village of former South African president Nelson Mandela to decide on whether he should be released from his pain 

 Family members have been seen arriving for a meeting in Nelson Mandela’s home village of Qunu in the Eastern Cape, reporters said on Tuesday.