Nelson Mandela "in stable condition but still unconscious"

       

Saturday, June 22, 2013 changed Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 2:57 p.m.

The global icon, Nelson Mandela hospitalized in a clinic in Pretoria it there's almost 15 days for a new recurrent pulmonary infection, is "in stable condition but still unconscious," said Saturday the South African presidency .

According to local press, the activist's most famous anti-apartheid cause, often undergoing medical examinations required in connection with such age, has a history of lung problems after suffering from tuberculosis at the end of his prison 27 years.

Each day, the Mandela family visited the former president of the nation "rainbow", including his ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela, and his daughter Zenani, Ambassador of South Africa to Argentina.

The Nobel Prize (94) had been admitted twice to a hospital in Pretoria for the same lung infection, a week after undergoing endoscopy for the rid of gallstones.

Mandela appears increasingly frail in public appearances increasingly rare. Most recently in the closing ceremony of the last World Cup in 2010 in Johannesburg.

Despite the heavy legacy of apartheid, Nelson Mandela was able to invest in the democratic reconstruction, social, economic and political life of countries seeking to meet the urgent needs of the black population and allay the fears of Afrikaners.

Mandela remains a worldwide personality heard about human rights and is hailed as the father of a multiracial South Africa and fully democratic nation qualified rainbow sky, although the country still faces serious problems economic inequality, social tension and community declines.

(source) Atlas News