More news on the health of the former south-african president. seems his health ain't improving:
The family of the 94-year-old legend have been meeting with senior tribal elders over the past two days.
Mr Mandela is still in a critical condition and is no longer able to breathe unassisted.
And although it is against xhosa tribal tradition to discuss the death of a living person they
have been told to 'prepare for the worst'.
A South African archbishop who visited the former Nobel Peace Prize winner in hospital has
offered a prayer in which he wishes for a “peaceful, perfect, end”.
Thabo Makgoba, the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, asked for courage to be granted to
Mr Mandela’s wife, Graca Machel, and others who love him “at this hard time of watching and waiting".
“May your blessing rest upon Madiba now and always,” Makgoba said in the prayer, using Mandela’s clan name. “Grant him, we pray, a quiet night and a peaceful, perfect, end.”
Outside the Pretoria hospital, well-wishers have left flowers, drawings and messages of support for their much-loved former leader.
“Let’s accept instead of crying,” said Lucas Aedwaba, a security officer who described Mandela as a hero. “Let’s celebrate that the old man lived and left his legacy.”
President Jacob Zuma said Mr Mandela’s condition, previously described as serious but
stable, had deteriorated to critical over the weekend.
TO me he is old enough. #justsaying#
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