{"id":8326,"date":"2012-02-25T14:34:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T12:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-3-mandela-admitted-to-hospital-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-02-25T14:34:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T12:34:30","slug":"update-3-mandela-admitted-to-hospital-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-mandela-admitted-to-hospital-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Mandela admitted to hospital in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Updates with ANC comments)<\/span><\/p>\n

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JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 25 (Reuters) – Former South African
\npresident Nelson Mandela was admitted to hospital on Saturday to
\nbe treated for a “long-standing abdominal complaint”,
\nintensifying concerns about the health of the 93-year-old
\nanti-apartheid leader.<\/p>\n

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The government said Mandela needed specialist medical
\ntreatment although the ruling African National Congress (ANC)
\nsaid his admission was not an emergency and did not involve
\nsurgery.<\/p>\n

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“There’s no need for panic,” ANC spokesman Keith Khoza told
\nSouth Africa’s e-News channel. “It was not an emergency
\nadmission. It was planned.”<\/p>\n

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An ANC source told Reuters that Mandela, who is popularly
\nknown by his clan name, Madiba, was “not looking serious”.<\/p>\n

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Mandela has been in poor health since spending nearly a week
\nin Johannesburg’s Milpark hospital just over a year ago with
\nrespiratory problems, and has not appeared in public since then.<\/p>\n

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He has spent the last year between his home in
\nJohannesburg’s northern suburbs and his ancestral village of
\nQunu in the impoverished Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n

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As South Africa’s first black president, Mandela occupies a
\ncentral position in the psyche of a country that was ruled by
\nthe 10 percent white minority until the first all-race elections
\nin 1994.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this month, President Jacob Zuma and the central
\nbank issued a new set of bank notes bearing his image.<\/p>\n

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Mandela has long since withdrawn from active participation
\nin politics and public life in Africa’s biggest economy, having
\nstood down at the end of his first term in office in 1999.<\/p>\n

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His last major public appearance was in July 2010 at the
\nfinal of the World Cup in Johannesburg’s Soccer City stadium.\t<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Ed Cropley and Peroshni Govender; Editing by
\nJanet Lawrence\/Ruth Pitchford)<\/p>\n

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\t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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