Post date: Jun 12, 2013 2:28:34 PM
Nelson Mandela's former wife Winnie visits him at the Mediclinic Heart Hospital.
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA (JUNE 12, 2013) (REUTERS) - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former South African President and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, visited him in the hospital on Wednesday (June 12).
President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday at a session of South African parliament in Cape Town, that Mandela was "responding better to treatment" for a lung infection.Zuma told parliament that he was happy with the progress being made by the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader after a "difficult few days".
Mandela, who is spending his fifth day in hospital for a recurring lung infection, continued to receive close care from doctors, Presidency spokesman Mac Maharajtold SAFM radio.
Mandela was admitted in the early hours of Saturday (June 8) with a recurring lung infection. The hospital stay is his fourth since December, and there is a growing realisation among South Africa's 53 million people that they will one day have to say goodbye to the father of the "Rainbow Nation" that Mandela tried to forge from the ashes of apartheid.