Sunday, November 17, 2013

South Africa: Nelson Mandela remains Ill, cannot speak

Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP

South Africa's former president, Nelson Mandela, remains "quite ill" and unable to speak because of tubes that are keeping his lungs clear of fluid, though he is relaxed, his former wife told a South African newspaper.

"He remains very sensitive to any germs, so he has to be kept literally sterile. The bedroom there (in his suburban Johannesburg home) is like an ICU ward," Winnie Madikizela-Mandela told the Sunday

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