South Africa Prepares for Mandela’s 95th Birthday

South Africa is gearing up to celebrate the 95th birthday of its anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela on Thursday, even as the revered statesman remains critically ill in a hospital. 

South Africans are preparing to donate goods and volunteer their services for 67-minutes, all for a good cause as part of the Mandela Day initiative, which honours the legacy of the country’s first black president and marks his birthday.

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Date Set For Control of Mandela Companies

A date for a court battle involving the control of the ailing Nelson Mandela's companies has been set for July 29, the South African public broadcaster reported on Thursday.

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Quiet outside Mandela’s hospital

It was quiet outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria, on Saturday morning, where former president Nelson Mandela is being treated. 

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Mandelas At War as Nation Prepares to Say its Goodbye to Beloved Madiba

There are 34 family members preparing for the passing of Nelson Mandela, the man who was to two of them a husband, to three of them a father, to 17 of them a grandfather and to the other 12 a great-grandfather. 

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Police, Workers Move In To Exhume Mandela's Children

Workers armed with pick-axes and a court order broke into the compound of Nelson Mandela's grandson on Wednesday to exhume the remains of three of the anti-apartheid hero's children, a new twist in a row that has split South Africa's most famous family.

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Mandela Family Feud Over Where He Should Be Buried

As Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition in hospital Friday, a family feud over where the 94-year-old former president should be buried went to the courts, according to South Africa’s national broadcaster.

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Obama's Ties To Mandela Loom Over South Africa Visit

Inspired by Nelson Mandela's struggles in South Africa, a young Barack Obama joined campus protests in the U.S. against the racist rule that kept Mandela locked away in prison for nearly three decades.

Now a historic, barrier-breaking figure himself, President Obama arrived in South Africa Friday to find a country drastically transformed by Mandela's influence — and grappling with the beloved 94-year-old's mortality.

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Tensions as Nelson Mandela's Family Meet.....Mandela Remains in Critical Condition

NELSON Mandela's close family huddled at his rural homestead to discuss the failing health of the South African anti-apartheid icon who was fighting for his life in hospital. 
 
Family members including one of Mr Mandela's daughters and at least two grandchildren were seen gathering for a meeting in the village of Qunu, where the charismatic former leader spent his childhood tending cattle and living in mud-walled huts.

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5 Best Books By Nelson Mandela

In the "Speech from the Dock" Nelson Mandela stated, "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

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South Africa Says Nelson Mandela's Condition Critical

South Africa's iconic former leader Nelson Mandela has lapsed into critical condition after spending more than two weeks in a Pretoria hospital to treat a lung infection, according to a statement from the president's office.

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Nelson Mandela in hospital 4th day as the presidency says condition's stable

Nelson Mandela in hospital 4th day as South Africa presidency says condition still serious but stable 

The South African government said Tuesday that former President Nelson Mandela's condition remained unchanged, as the global icon spent his fourth day in a hospital for a recurring lung infection.

Nelson Mandela

His admission to a hospital in Pretoria, the capital, is the anti-apartheid leader's fourth time being admitted to a hospital for treatment since December. His last discharge came April 6 after doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia and drained fluid from his lung area.

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South Africa Prays for Nelson Mandela

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa prayed for Nelson Mandela on Sunday as the revered peace icon faced a third night in hospital, with calls for the family and the nation to "let him go".

Government officials have given no update on his health since announcing that the 94-year-old was admitted early Saturday and was in a "serious but stable" condition with a lung infection.

"I've seen my father and he's well. He's a fighter," his daughter Zindzi told The Guardian newspaper on Sunday.

But South Africans are beginning to come to terms with the mortality of their first black president and father of the "Rainbow Nation", following a string of recent health scares.

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