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NELSON MANDELA WAS back in hospital today in a “serious but stable” condition suffering from a recurrent lung infection, the latest health scare for South Africa’s frail anti-apartheid icon.
Mandela, who turns 95 next month, was admitted to hospital in the capital Pretoria in the early hours of Saturday, his fourth hospital stay in seven months .
“During the past few days former president Nelson Mandela has had a recurrence of lung infection,” President Jacob Zuma’s office said in a statement.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has long had problems with his lungs, had been released from hospital in April following a 10-day stay for treatment for pneumonia.
In December 2012, he was hospitalised for 18 days for a lung infection and for gallstones surgery, his longest stay since he walked free from 27 years in jail in 1990. In March he was admitted for a day for a scheduled check-up.
Zuma’s office said earlier that “the former president is receiving expert medical care and doctors are doing everything possible to make him better and comfortable.”
“President Jacob Zuma, on behalf of government and the nation, wishes Madiba a speedy recovery and requests the media and the public to respect the privacy of Madiba and his family,” it added, using Mandela’s clan name.
Beloved as South Africa’s first black democratically elected president, Mandela is still a powerful symbol of unity for the once-bitterly divided nation almost 20 years after first taking power.
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Whoever buys it has to call every man he ever meets again Boy
And has to wear a white Colonel Saunders type suit…..
Shouldn’t be a problem If he’s from Cork.
What is up with you journal. You have an extreme fascination with property, smart phones and Pat Kenny!!! And before anyone points it out I know the journal and daft are one of the same.
There is nothing “fairytale” like about an 18th century plantation.
Ah yes, “guesthouses”!!
And the “hunting lodge”!!
“mysterious garden in the back”….. You mean the remains of the former slave quarters??? Speaking of slavery, that place is so old it probably comes with its own slave mass grave….
Being a former plantation I doubt life was a fairytale for most of the people who lived there
I wonder how many KKK rally’s were held on its land.
So many I’d say to this day there’s hardly a pillow case left in the place without eye holes cut in them.
The person who won the €160. million on Friday could buy that from the change in their back pocket!
Yeah and better value then the “high end of Ireland”
A fairytale except for the slaves! The many many slaves!
I’d prefer a pool table in my game room.
Me likey
Oooh, do any slaves come with the plantation?
Are those genuine Audubon prints (the turkey is clearly visible) in the main house? Elephant folio, very rare, sought after collectors items.
Jump down turn around pick a bail of cotton, Jump down turn around pick a bail of hay …..
Jesus, 2 posh house for sale abroad articles in one day in the Journal. I know it’s a Sunday and the ‘journalists’ need to fill space but come on, who gives a sh*te? It would be a lot more interesting if the article was ’1 room tin shack for sale in Manila slum for $1000′
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