READ TO YOU: Nelson Mandela remains hospitalized, the South Africans had no news

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The South Africans were no news on Sunday afternoon, the health of Nelson Mandela, 94 years old, hospitalized Saturday for a lung infection. According to his latest health bulletin, published on Saturday, the state is "worrying".

Since the announcement of his hospitalization in the night from Friday to Saturday for a lung infection, the South African president gave no information on the health of Nelson Mandela. The last bill of health of the former president and hero of the anti-apartheid struggle, released Saturday morning, spoke of a "worrying" condition.
In Qunu, his grandson, the son of Mandela hometown in the deep south of South Africa and head of the clan Mandla Mandela, 39, has observed an unusual silence against journalists came to ask him about, reported the news channel eNCA.
"[Nelson Mandela is suffering from] a lung infection, pneumonia, which affects many things breathing. But the doctors told me that he was breathing without assistance, so I think this is a positive sign" , said Saturday Mac Maharaj, spokesman of the Presidency.
 Asked about the concern for the life of Nelson Mandela, Mac Maharaj perspective. "At the beginning [of previous hospitalizations, ed] we were very anxious, this time, our anxiety is tempered by an understanding of its age and fragility (...) We do not need to be too worried We just need to keep thinking about how his life has made us better people. "
Messages of support on social networks
Hundreds of journalists have gathered without certainty about the institution where Mandela was treated during his last stay in the hospital - the exact location of his hospitalization was not disclosed. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, no specific activity was noticeable outside.
Since the announcement of his hospitalization, the messages of support from parties, personality and anonymous began arriving by the thousands on social networks.
"Our thoughts and prayers are addressed to (Nelson Mandela), his family and the South Africans," he told AFP Caitlin Hayden, spokesman for the National Security Council (NSC), the firm's foreign policy U.S. President Barack Obama.
"My thoughts are with Nelson Mandela in Pretoria hospital," he tweeted on his side with British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Emergency hospitalization
The former president was hospitalized Saturday morning around 1:30 am (2330 GMT Friday), because "the state [had] deteriorated", had said Saturday the office of President Jacob Zuma.
Little information has filtered through the hospitalization. "We just know that he was rushed to a hospital in Pretoria and that members of his family with him," had said Saturday Caroline Dumay, FRANCE 24 correspondent in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela had spent ten days in the hospital from March 27 to April 6, 2013, where he was treated for a lung infection due to a recurrence of an old pneumonia. He had since returned to his home in Johannesburg where he was followed by his doctors.
First black president of South Africa in 1994, whom his countrymen affectionately called "Madiba" had been hospitalized in January 2011 and December 2012 of lung infections. Disease probably related to sequelae of tuberculosis contracted during his stay on the island prison of Robben Island, off Cape. It is in this prison he had spent eighteen of the twenty-seven years of detention, breaking rocks in a dust which greatly damaged his lungs.
Mandela, who has not appeared in public since 2010, has been completely removed from politics and has not expressed any opinion publicly. There remains an idol worshiped by a people for his fight for equality and human rights.
Source With France 24 news