Zuma Visits Mandela In Hospital

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Story Via pmnewsnigeria South African President Jacob Zuma on Sunday visited former President Nelson Mandela in hospital.
Zuma expressed satisfaction on the condition of Mandela after the visit, describing it as “comfortable and in good care.”
Presidential Spokesperson Mac Maharaj said in a statement that Mandela was admitted to the hospital in Pretoria on Saturday for medical attention.
He said Zuma visited Mandela on Sunday morning to wish him well. Maharaj appealed to the media and the public to respect the privacy of Mandela and his family. Mandela was in 2011 admitted for a chest infection.

South Africans united to offer prayers for ailing national icon Nelson Mandela today. Mandela is spending a third day in hospital for undefined tests.
Discussion about the health of the anti-apartheid leader featured prominently in newspapers, church services, social media feeds and conversations across the rainbow nation. Madiba, as he is affectionately known by South Africans, retains a prominent place in the national psyche, despite leaving office more than a decade ago, a lifetime ago in the quick-moving politics of this born-again nation. “Nation prays for Madiba” was the front-page headline in the Sowetan daily attempting to capture the zeitgeist of a nation. “The fact is that when Madiba sneezes, South Afric, and the rest of the world, catches a cold,” the paper said in an editorial.

“We love Madiba, we feel every inch of anxiety, stress and pain with the rest of his close and distant family. And like concerned loved ones, we want to know how he is doing.” Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Soweto township, a centre of the struggle against apartheid and where Mandela has a house, said prayers during their Sunday service, according to the New Age. The Star had a front-page picture of a sand sculpture with a “get well soon” message inscribed next to a sand portrait of Mandela build on a beach in India. The country’s opposition parties joined the chorus of prayers to wish Mandela well.
“When Mandela is admitted to hospital, all of us get affected because we love and care for him,” said the main opposition Democratic Alliance spokesman Mmusi Maimane. Congress of the People (COPE) which broke away from the ANC, expressed the hope that the tests being conducted find Mandela in good health.
But there was also a level of resignation about Mandela’s fate, in contrast to the panic of previous health scares, and a sense that Mandela must now be left in peace. “Dear South Africans Please let Nelson Mandela go, he is old now and deserves to rest,” @ComradeESETHU from Cape Town wrote on Twitter.
“Such sensationalism in the media. Yes, I admire Mandela but the man is 94 years old! Whether sick or not, he’s not going to live forever,” said @SediNtuli from Grahamstown, South Africa. The anti-apartheid hero and Nobel Peace Prize laureate was flown from his home village to a hospital in the capital Pretoria on Saturday. It was the second time the 94-year-old and increasingly frail Mandela had been hospitalised this year. While officials are trying to allay fears over his health, they are not releasing any details of his condition.

Medical experts say there is nothing out of the ordinary for a person of Mandela’s age to require in-patient attention from time to time.
“We need to understand that he is 94 years old, and that his state of health is not genuinely of a good quality, and that from time to time he is admitted to hospitals,” Mark Sonderup, vice chairman of the South African Medical Association told AFP. The anti-apartheid hero and Nobel Peace Prize laureate was flown from his home village of Qunu in the southeast of the country to a hospital in the capital Pretoria on Saturday. The once spry boxer, who stayed fit during his 27 years in prison by doing calisthenics in his cell, has grown increasingly frail. But his stature as one of the world’s most famous and loved public figures remains undimmed. “We wish him a speedy recovery,” said Ntanyongwana Mdzeki, an octogenarian neighbour of Mandela in Qunu village. “We still need him to be around because he changed our lives.”

Mandela’s former political colleague Ahmed Kathrada, another apartheid-era prisoner, also wished Mandela a speedy recovery. “Even in such mundane times as routine hospital visits, you allow South Africans from across the length and breadth of this country to unite in concern for you,” said a statement by the Kathrada foundation. Keith Khoza spokesman of the ruling ANC party, which Mandela once led, said the party wished him well. “He is in perfect health,” he added. “Everything is well. It’s just that he has to undergo these regular check ups.” Officials have refused to give more details about his condition or say in which hospital he is being treated. Security appeared to have been beefed up however at 1 Military Hospital on the outskirts of Pretoria. Military police were searching the trunks of all the cars entering the hospital complex, according to an AFP photographer. South Africa’s military has in the past been responsible for Mandela’s health.

The revered statesman has not appeared in public since South Africa hosted the FIFA World Cup final in 2010. Madiba, as he is affectionately known by South Africans, has all-but retired from public life, choosing to live in his childhood hometown of Qunu in the rural Eastern Cape.

His last hospitalisation was in February when he spent a night in hospital for a minor exploratory procedure to investigate persistent abdominal pain.
In January 2011, Mandela had the country on edge when he was admitted for two nights for an acute respiratory infection. He was discharged in a stable condition for home-based care and intense medical monitoring.
Mandela has also had prostate cancer, for which he was successfully treated in 2001. He had cataract surgery in 1994, just months after he took office as president. After years fighting white-only rule, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the last white president, FW de Klerk, in 1993.

A year later, he crowned his long fight against minority rule by becoming the country’s first black president at the end of apartheid.
The last pictures of Mandela published in the media were in August when he received a visit from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at his home

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