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2012-12-10 10:44<\/span><\/p>\n

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Well wishes continue to pour in for ailing elderly statesman Nelson Mandela. Mandela remains at 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria, where he was admitted on Saturday for routine medical tests. Watch. WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Johannesburg – There is no need to panic about former president Nelson Mandela<\/a>‘s health, the presidency said on Monday.<\/p>\n

“There is no cause for alarm… he [Mandela] is in the hands of a good medical team,” said presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj.<\/p>\n

An update on Mandela’s health would be communicated once his doctors had updated the presidency, he said.<\/p>\n

Mandela, 94, was admitted to a hospital in Pretoria on Saturday for “medical attention”.<\/p>\n

At the time, Maharaj said that, as had been said before, Mandela would “receive medical attention from time to time which is consistent with his age”.<\/p>\n

On Sunday morning, President Jacob Zuma<\/a> visited Mandela in hospital and found him “comfortable, and in good care”, said Maharaj.<\/p>\n

He again appealed to the media and to the public to respect the privacy of Mandela and his family. It is believed that he is being treated at One Military hospital.<\/p>\n

Motlanthe visit to Mandela cancelled<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe reportedly cancelled a planned visit to Mandela at his Qunu home last week, according to weekend reports.<\/p>\n

“All I know is that there was a planned visit to Mandela, but the deputy president decided to cancel and attend to state matters,” Motlanthe’s spokesperson Thabo Masebe told the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n

A Qunu traditional ruler, Nokwanele Balizulu, told foreign news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) she saw Mandela shortly before he was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n

“I was called by the Mandela family saying Tata [grandfather] is not well. I rushed there and I saw he is not well,” she was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press reported on Sunday that worshippers gathered at the Regina Mundi Catholic church in Soweto to pray for Mandela.<\/p>\n

Mandela was admitted to hospital in February this year for a diagnostic procedure, which Lindiwe Sisulu – defence minister at the time – later said was “an investigative laparoscopy”.<\/p>\n

This hospital visit was marked by much less media speculation than a hospital visit in January 2011, when few updates on his condition were made public, leading to rumours about his condition.<\/p>\n

In February, the presidency sent regular updates on his condition, but did not say in which hospital he was being treated, probably as a result of a media frenzy outside Milpark hospital in Johannesburg on the previous occasion.<\/p>\n

In 2011, he was in hospital for what the Nelson Mandela<\/a> Foundation described as “routine checks”.<\/p>\n

That year, Motlanthe eventually broke the silence on Mandela’s condition on January 27, when he said Mandela was being discharged to receive home-based care for a respiratory infection.<\/p>\n

Another frenzy followed in December 2011, when eNews, in a review of stories of the year, carried file footage of Mandela being taken to hospital in January 2011.<\/p>\n

This triggered a flurry of rumours about the former president’s health.<\/p>\n

– SAPA<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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