Tuesday 2 July 2013
Nelson Mandela Is In Critical But Stable Condition, In Latest Update
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Nelson Mandela Is In Critical But Stable Condition, In Latest Update.
The situation of former South African person in charge Nelson
Mandela is "still stable but stable," according to the office of
President Jacob Zuma. Mandela, 94, has been in a Pretoria hospital since June 8
with a lung disease.
In the first official update on Mandela's health since Thursday,
the administration also urged people to prepare for the beloved rights
activist's birthday later this month.
"We remind all South Africans to begin arrangement for
Madiba's birthday on the 18th of July. We must all be able to do something good
for humanity on this day, in tribute to our former president," President
Zuma said.
Because
of health concern, Mandela, who is also known by the established tribal name of
Madiba, did not meet with President Obama during his visit to South Africa this past weekend.
From Johannesburg, NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton reports that it's
the fourth hospital stay for Mandela since Christmas. And as his extended
family copes with the disease of its patriarch, advice have also broken out.
Ofeibea reports:
"The battle brewing between
members of the Mandela family is over the reburial of three of Nelson Mandela's
children. The Royal House of his AbaThembu clan is said to be deeply concerned
that the courts have ruled on the matter.
"More than a dozen Mandela family members are legally
taxing his grandson, Chief Mandla Mandela. The latter reportedly had the
remains of Mandela's children exhumed and taken to Mvezo, the village where
Nelson Mandela was born.
"They had been buried in Qunu, where Nelson
Mandela spent much of his childhood, built his retirement home, and where he is
believed to want to be laid to rest."
As the BBC reports, "The remains are of Makgatho Mandela,
Mandla's father who died from AIDS-related diseases in 2005 and his siblings,
Thembekile, who was killed in a car accident in 1969, and Makaziwe, his first
daughter who died when she was nine months old."
Mandla,
who is a member of Parliament, had their vestiges moved two years ago without consult
other family members, reportsSouth Africa's News 24.
He is apparently arrangement to build a hotel, soccer stadium, and heritage
center in Mvezo.
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