Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Isha Sesay on CNN International jets to Soweto, South Africa, as anxiety and TV news coverage ramps up over ailing Nelson Mandela.


Isha Sesay of CNN International (DStv 401), the presenter of NewsCenter jetted into South Africa and Soweto to cover from there the deteriorating health of Nelson Mandela.

All the 24-hour TV news channels and TV news crews are ramping up their coverage around the ailing South African statesman who remains in critical condition in a Pretoria hospital as the world waits on edge for any updates.

Nkepile Mabuse continues with her media vigil outside the Pretoria hospital together with dozens of foreign media and reporters, their cameras and satellite trucks aimed at the hospital where Nelson Mandela remains in critical condition.

Nkepile Mabuse did live crossings again on Tuesday from the hospital and Isha Sesay was also in South Africa and filed from Soweto.

The eNCA had reporter Xoli Mngambi in the Eastern Cape filing reports from Qunu covering the two family meetings today of the Mandela clan who met to "discuss delicate matters" - a traditional type of meeting held in Xhosa culture to talk about any kind of "significant family event".