"After month, Nelson Mandela still hospitalized" Associated Press, July 07, 2013
JOHANNESBURG — Former South African president Nelson Mandela, 94, is not in a vegetative state, contrary to recent court documents....
There has been an outpouring of concern in South Africa and around the world for Mandela, a transformative figure who led the tense shift from white rule to democracy two decades ago in a spirit of reconciliation....
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for negotiating a peaceful transition to democracy and became the country’s first black president a year later when the African National Congress won the first all-race elections....
His wife Graca Machel’s own life story — as a trained guerrilla, advocate for children, and the only woman to have served as first lady of two African nations — has become intertwined with that of Mandela.
Since they married on his 80th birthday in 1998, Machel, who is now 67, has been his constant companion and an equal advocate of the causes that he champions. Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu said she has brought joy to Mandela and has tried hard to draw his family together.
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Mandela ‘perilous’ as gravesite restored
He's basically gone.
South African government denies Mandela in a coma
Did you see who was at his bedside?
Also see:
Mandela is Dying
Sunday Globe Special: South African S*** Shovel
Obama in Africa Coverage Has Been Offensive
All forgotten now.
Who Lost Africa?
"At least 446 rhinos have been killed illegally in South Africa this year, with 280 slaughtered in Kruger National Park, a conservation area the size of Israel that borders Mozambique and where the army has been deployed, the Department of Environmental Affairs said in a statement. The horns sell for more than gold by weight in China and Vietnam, where they are believed by some to cure cancer and boost virility."
At least it wasn't a .
