An ambulance carrying South Africa's showtime democratically elected president Nelson Mandela caught burn downwards equally it was rushing him to hospital, his doc revealed inward a majority published on Monday.
The incident is i of several bizarre episodes contained inward the majority chronicling Mandela's in conclusion years yesteryear Vejay Ramlakan, who was South Africa's surgeon full general together with the one-time president's physician until his expiry inward 2013.
Ramlakan was accompanying Mandela from his Johannesburg domicile to a specialist catch infirmary inward Pretoria inward June 2013 when smoke began billowing from the ambulance carrying the one-time liberation leader.
"A curtain of dark smoke enveloped the ambulance equally it slowed to a stop inward the fast lane of the freeway," Ramlakan wrote.
"I lifted my focus from the department of route inward the headlights to glance ahead together with saw what appeared to endure a vehicle on fire.... This was awful. Madiba inward an ambulance on fire," added Ramlakan, using Mandela's clan name.
Despite the fears of Mandela's medical team, their patient was unharmed together with subsequently thirty minutes was transferred to a backup ambulance to consummate the journey.
Ramlakan likewise revealed that before long subsequently Mandela's expiry at the historic menstruum of 95 inward Dec 2013 next a prolonged respiratory infection, a spy photographic tv set camera was flora inward the morgue where his trunk was held.
"I flora this a symptom of the lunacy of persons whose unfettered curiosity was virtually barbaric," he wrote.
In 2011, 3 spy cameras filming the Mandela household together with household unit of measurement cemetery were likewise discovered close Qunu, Mandela's nascency hamlet inward South Africa's Eastern Cape region, 450 kilometres (280 miles) southwest of Durban, Ramlakan wrote.
The majority "Mandela's Last Years" was released ahead of Mandela Day on Tuesday, an annual 24-hour interval to award his memory.
AFP