Messages of love for the 'father of democracy': Touching tributes outside hospital where ailing Nelson Mandela remains in 'critical condition'

Well-wishers have flocked to the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria to leave messages of support, pictured, after it emerged that Mandela is in a 'critical condition'. Among the cards were handwritten notes from schoolchildren thanking the inspirational leader, pictured top centre, who helped bring an end to apartheid in South Africa, and urging him to get better, pictured top right. It comes as close relatives of the 94-year-old held an emergency meeting at the former anti-apartheid leader's home in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape, this morning