{"id":237066,"date":"2012-12-08T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/12\/mandela-in-hospital-for-tests\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T16:27:00","slug":"mandela-in-hospital-for-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/08\/mandela-in-hospital-for-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandela in hospital &#8216;for tests&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"caption body-narrow-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/64649000\/jpg\/_64649913_64649828.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" alt=\"File picture taken on June 17, 2010 shows former Nelson Mandela at the funeral of his great-granddaughter in Sandton, north of Johannesburg\" \/><span class=\"c1\">Nelson Mandela retired from public life in 2004<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"introduction\" id=\"story_continues_1\">South Africa&#8217;s former president Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital in the capital Pretoria to undergo tests, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The office of President Jacob Zuma said 94-year-old Mr Mandela was doing well and there was &#8220;no cause for alarm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mandela spent more than two decades in jail under the white minority apartheid regime.<\/p>\n<p>He served as South Africa&#8217;s first black president between 1994 and 1999, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mandela has rarely appeared in public since 2004, when he retired from public life.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2011 he was treated for a serious chest infection, and a year later underwent a diagnostic procedure for an abdominal problem.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said on Saturday that he would need medical attention &#8220;from time to time&#8221; because of his age.<\/p>\n<p>There is no information yet on what prompted his admission, says the BBC&#8217;s Andrew Harding in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Zuma <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepresidency.gov.za\/pebble.asp?relid=7430\">said in a statement<\/a>: &#8220;We wish Madiba [Mandela] all the best.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The medical team is assured of our support as they look after and ensure the comfort of our beloved founding president of a free and democratic South Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement gave no further details of Mr Mandela&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mandela spends almost all his time in Qunu, a rural village close to where he was born.<\/p>\n<p>He is known to be frail and his memory is fading, but visitors have repeatedly said he is in good spirits, says our correspondent.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela retired from public life in 2004 South Africa&#8217;s former president Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital in the capital Pretoria to undergo tests, officials say. The office of President Jacob Zuma said 94-year-old Mr Mandela was doing well and there was &#8220;no cause for alarm&#8221;. Mr Mandela spent more than two decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mandela in hospital &#039;for tests&#039; - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/08\/mandela-in-hospital-for-tests\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mandela in hospital &#039;for tests&#039; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nelson Mandela retired from public life in 2004 South Africa&#8217;s former president Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital in the capital Pretoria to undergo tests, officials say. 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