NELSON Mandela remains in a critical condition

Zuma said he saw Mandela in hospital last night and spoke to the wife of the former President and the medical team.

Zuma said at a news conference doctors are doing everything in their power to make Mandela comfortable.

A statement issued by Zuma's office earlier in the morning, he visited the leader of the anti-apartheid 94 years in a hospital on Sunday evening, and was informed by the medical team that if Mandela had become critical in the past 24 hours.


"The doctors are making every possible effort to get his condition to improve and ensure Madiba well looked after and uncomfortable. Was in good hands," said President Zuma said in a statement, using Mandela's clan name.
"The doctors also rejected media reports that Madiba suffered cardiac arrest. There is no truth whatsoever in that report," he said ..

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Zuma also met with Graca Machel, wife of Nelson Mandela, in the hospital, and discussed the case of the former president, according to the statement.

Mandela, who became the first black president of South Africa after the end of apartheid in 1994, was hospitalized on June 8, when the government said that repeated lung infections.

Zuma appealed to South Africa and the rest of the world to pray for Mandela, his family and the medical team attending to him.

Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years under white apartheid rule, and was released in 1990. He then played a leading role in guiding the country is divided from the era of apartheid to democracy, to become the first black president of South Africa in the multi-racial elections in 1994.

Mandela developed tuberculosis during the 27 years he spent in prison for his opposition to white minority rule and has had chronic lung problems. Current residence in the hospital is the fourth since December.

As a result of his sacrifice and peace-making efforts, and saw many parts of the world as a symbol of reconciliation.


A man walks past a mural depicting different times in the life of former president Nelson Mandela near Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Soweto, June 23, 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo: Chip Somodevilla
The announcement came after media reports unconfirmed reports that Mandela was the worst case than the authorities and relatives might indicate.

The U.S. news channel CBS at the weekend details from hardware failure, and said that Mandela was "unresponsive" and "did not open his eyes for several days." The liver and kidneys claimed Mandela was working 50 per cent of its capacity.

However, the eldest daughter Makaziwe Mandela scoffed at those claims telling CNN that "he stll opens his eyes, ... a touch there."

She also rejected suggestions that the family should be allowed for the patient to go global icon, saying that AU and the UN.

"He did not say that we should release him and we did not come to the end of yet, it is only God who knows the end," she told CNN.

President Zuma also discussed the Government's recognition of the previous day that an ambulance carrying Mandela to the hospital two weeks ago has been a problem in the engine, which requires that the former president is transferred to another ambulance for the trip to the hospital.

"There were seven doctors in the convoy, who were in full control of the situation throughout this period. Said President Zuma had expert medical care''." The ICU was a military ambulance fully equipped full range of specialist medical staff, including intensive care specialists, nurses and intensive care unit.


Former South African President Nelson Mandela. Picture: Barbara Kinney
President Zuma appealed to South Africa and the rest of the world to pray for Mandela, his family and the medical team attending to him.

On April 29, state television footage of the visit of President Zuma and other leaders of the African National Congress to Mandela's house. President Zuma said at the time that Mandela was in good condition, but the footage - the first public images of Mandela in almost a year - showed him the silent and unresponsive, even when Zuma tried to hold his hand.