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NELSON MANDELA’S HEALTH WORSENS AS FAMILY RESORT TO PRAYERS

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After hours of vigils and secret family meetings, South
Africans awoke to another day of unease Wednesday as ailing anti-apartheid icon
Nelson Mandela remained hospitalized in critical condition.
“Former President Nelson Mandela’s condition remains
unchanged in hospital and doctors continue to do their best to ensure his
recovery, well-being and comfort,” the government said in a statement late
Tuesday night.
Well-wishers outside his Pretoria hospital hung balloons and
signs of support on bulletin boards. The hospital wall was plastered with
messages as crowds hovering nearby sang “where is Mandela.”
Mandela has been hospitalized since June 8 for a recurring
lung infection, and authorities have described his condition as critical in the
last few days.
 Considered the founding father of South Africa’s democracy, Mandela became an
international figure while enduring 27 years in prison for fighting against
apartheid, the country’s system of racial segregation.
He was elected the nation’s first black president in 1994,
four years after he was freed from prison.
Even as he has faded from the spotlight, he remains popular
and is considered a hero of democracy worldwide. 

As South Africans steeled themselves for the worst, the
family turned to prayer. Relatives met in his boyhood home of Qunu while an
archbishop led his family in prayer Tuesday, calling for “a quiet night
and a peaceful, perfect, end” for the former president. Archbishop Thabo Makgoba joined the family at the hospital
where the anti-apartheid icon remains in critical condition.
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