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| JOHANNESBURG — Former President Nelson Mandela of South Africa spent his fourth day in intensive care in a Pretoria hospital Tuesday, battling a lung infection that has raised fears that the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader is nearing the end of his life. | JOHANNESBURG — Former President Nelson Mandela of South Africa spent his fourth day in intensive care in a Pretoria hospital Tuesday, battling a lung infection that has raised fears that the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader is nearing the end of his life. |
| Family members, including his former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and several of his grandchildren have visited Mr. Mandela in the past 24 hours. Local news reports said that his daughter Zenani Dlamini, who is South Africa's ambassador to Argentina, is returning to South Africa to be at his side. His wife, Graça Machel, a children's rights advocate, canceled a trip to London, where she was to have given a speech on hunger. | |
| Mr. Mandela has been in frail health for the past few years, and since December he has been hospitalized four times. His lungs are fragile as a result of contracting tuberculosis during the 27 years he spent imprisoned for fighting against the white supremacist government of South Africa. | Mr. Mandela has been in frail health for the past few years, and since December he has been hospitalized four times. His lungs are fragile as a result of contracting tuberculosis during the 27 years he spent imprisoned for fighting against the white supremacist government of South Africa. |
| As his health has declined, well-wishers have gathered in churches and at monuments to Mr. Mandela to pray for him. Some said they hoped he would soon recover, but others said that after a long life well lived, the country must let go of Mr. Mandela. | As his health has declined, well-wishers have gathered in churches and at monuments to Mr. Mandela to pray for him. Some said they hoped he would soon recover, but others said that after a long life well lived, the country must let go of Mr. Mandela. |
| “The family must release him so that God may have his own way,” Andrew Mokete Mlangeni, a fellow prisoner at Robben Island with Mr. Mandela, told The Sunday Times newspaper. “We will say, ‘Thank you, God, you have given us this man.’ ” | “The family must release him so that God may have his own way,” Andrew Mokete Mlangeni, a fellow prisoner at Robben Island with Mr. Mandela, told The Sunday Times newspaper. “We will say, ‘Thank you, God, you have given us this man.’ ” |
| Mr. Mandela himself has always been sanguine about his own mortality. In an opinion article after a health scare in 1996, while he was serving as president, Mr. Mandela wrote, “I have long passed my teens; and the distance to my final destination is shorter than the road I have trudged over the years! What nature has decreed should not generate undue insecurity.” | Mr. Mandela himself has always been sanguine about his own mortality. In an opinion article after a health scare in 1996, while he was serving as president, Mr. Mandela wrote, “I have long passed my teens; and the distance to my final destination is shorter than the road I have trudged over the years! What nature has decreed should not generate undue insecurity.” |
| Details about Mr. Mandela’s health have been tightly held. President Jacob Zuma released a brief statement Monday saying that Mr. Mandela’s condition was unchanged: serious but stable. | Details about Mr. Mandela’s health have been tightly held. President Jacob Zuma released a brief statement Monday saying that Mr. Mandela’s condition was unchanged: serious but stable. |
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| Correction: June 11, 2013 | |
An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the daughter of Nelson Mandela who is South Africa’s ambassador to Argentina. She is Zenani Dlamini, not Zindzi. |