Tuesday, July 2, 2013

South Africa: Mandela and De Klerk, 2 past presidents suffering medically

FW de Klerk welcomes Nelson Mandela to his 70th birthday celebrations, March 18 2006. PHOTO/Mike Hutchings/ Reuters

Two former South African presidents bound together in the country's struggle to exit apartheid are both suffering ill health.

Nelson Mandela on Tuesday spent his 25th day in the hospital, while officials announced that that F.W. de Klerk will be fitted with a pacemaker. De Klerk is the last leader of South Africa's apartheid era. He and Mandela shared the 1993 Nobel

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