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Mandela doing very well but faces more tests
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December 11, 2012, Tuesday
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SOUTH Africa's former President Nelson Mandela is "doing very, very well" while undergoing unspecified medical tests at a military hospital, the nation's defense minister said yesterday. The office of the presidency said the anti-apartheid icon was being kept in the hospital for a third day for more tests.
Mandela is revered by South Africans, and by many people around the world, for being a leader of the struggle against racist white rule in South Africa and for preaching reconciliation once he emerged from prison in 1990 after 27 years behind bars. He won South Africa's first all-race elections in 1994.
South Africans tensely awaited word on Mandela even as authorities tried to offer reassurances, but gave no details.
Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula spoke to media outside 1 Military Hospital in the capital, Pretoria, after seeing Mandela, 94. She offered the first government confirmation that Mandela is at the hospital. "He's doing very, very well. And it is important to keep him in our prayers and also to be as calm as possible."
A statement issued later yesterday by the office of President Jacob Zuma said Mandela "had a good night's rest. The doctors will still conduct further tests today. He is in good hands."
Mandela is revered by South Africans, and by many people around the world, for being a leader of the struggle against racist white rule in South Africa and for preaching reconciliation once he emerged from prison in 1990 after 27 years behind bars. He won South Africa's first all-race elections in 1994.
South Africans tensely awaited word on Mandela even as authorities tried to offer reassurances, but gave no details.
Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula spoke to media outside 1 Military Hospital in the capital, Pretoria, after seeing Mandela, 94. She offered the first government confirmation that Mandela is at the hospital. "He's doing very, very well. And it is important to keep him in our prayers and also to be as calm as possible."
A statement issued later yesterday by the office of President Jacob Zuma said Mandela "had a good night's rest. The doctors will still conduct further tests today. He is in good hands."
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