Former South African President and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was in hospital for the third day on Monday with a lung infection and his condition had not changed from “serious but stable”, the government said.
In a statement, President Jacob Zuma repeated his call for the country to pray for the ailing 94-year-old.
It is the 94-year-old’s fourth hospital stay since December and the government said on Saturday his condition was “serious”. During previous hospital visits it had highlighted his “good spirits”.
His health is a cause for concern to the millions of South Africans who revere Mandela for his decades of struggle against white-minority rule and steering the continent’s biggest economy to all-race elections.
