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| JOHANNESBURG — Former President Nelson Mandela of South Africa spent a fourth day in intensive care at a Pretoria hospital on Tuesday, battling a lung infection that has raised fears that he is nearing the end of his life. | JOHANNESBURG — Former President Nelson Mandela of South Africa spent a fourth day in intensive care at a Pretoria hospital on Tuesday, battling a lung infection that has raised fears that he is nearing the end of his life. |
| Family members, including his former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and several of his grandchildren, have visited him in the last 24 hours. Local news reports said his daughter Zenani Dlamini, who is the South African ambassador to Argentina, is returning to the country to be at his side. His wife, Graça Machel, a children’s rights advocate, canceled a trip to London, where she had been scheduled to give a speech on hunger. | Family members, including his former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and several of his grandchildren, have visited him in the last 24 hours. Local news reports said his daughter Zenani Dlamini, who is the South African ambassador to Argentina, is returning to the country to be at his side. His wife, Graça Machel, a children’s rights advocate, canceled a trip to London, where she had been scheduled to give a speech on hunger. |
| Mr. Mandela, 94, has been in frail health for the past few years and has been hospitalized four times since December. His lungs are fragile as a result of contracting tuberculosis during the 27 years he spent imprisoned for fighting the white supremacist government of South Africa. | Mr. Mandela, 94, has been in frail health for the past few years and has been hospitalized four times since December. His lungs are fragile as a result of contracting tuberculosis during the 27 years he spent imprisoned for fighting the white supremacist government of South Africa. |
| As his health has declined, well-wishers have gathered at churches and monuments to Mr. Mandela to pray for him. Some said they hoped he would recover soon, but others said that he had lived a long life and that the country must let go of him. | As his health has declined, well-wishers have gathered at churches and monuments to Mr. Mandela to pray for him. Some said they hoped he would recover soon, but others said that he had lived a long life and that the country must let go of him. |
| “The family must release him so that God may have his own way,” Andrew Mokete Mlangeni, who was a 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, who was a 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 on Monday saying 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 on Monday saying Mr. Mandela’s condition was unchanged: serious but stable. |
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: | This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: |
| Correction: June 11, 2013 | Correction: June 11, 2013 |
An earlier version of this article | An earlier version of this article misidentified the daughter of Nelson Mandela who is South Africa’s ambassador to Argentina. She is Zenani Dlamini, not Zindzi Mandela. |