Mandela visited in hospital by family

Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa's presidential spokesman says former President Nelson Mandela spent Monday with family members in the hospital where he is being treated for a fifth day for a recurring lung infection that developed into pneumonia...

Mandela improving, had restful day

Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa's government says former president Nelson Mandela had a restful day in the hospital today. A statement says he's improving after treatment for a recurrence of pneumonia...

In South Africa, Easter prayers for Mandela

Christopher Torchia, Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Nelson Mandela remained in a hospital on Easter Sunday while receiving treatment for a recurrence of pneumonia, the government said...

Idris Elba says his upcoming Mandela biopic is 'hands down the best'

Lilly Workneh

theGRIO REPORT - While Nelson Mandela’s recent hospitalization has been garnering headlines, actor Idris Elba plans on making his own after announcing that he will be portraying the South African leader in an upcoming biopic...

Mandela responds well to treatment

Christopher Torchia, Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A lung infection that has plagued Nelson Mandela has struck again, prompting doctors to admit the 94-year-old former president to a hospital late at night...

Nelson Mandela returns to hospital

Christopher Torchia, Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's first black president, has been admitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection, the presidential spokesman said Thursday...

Central African Republic president overthrown by rebels

Hippolyte Marboua and Krista Larson, Associated Press

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Rebels overthrew Central African Republic's president of a decade on Sunday, seizing the presidential palace and declaring that the desperately poor country has "opened a new page in its history."

Bodies exhumed in killings tied to Winnie Mandela

Michelle Faul, Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Forensic scientists on Tuesday exhumed two bodies believed to belong to young activists last seen 24 years ago at the home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela...

Nelson Mandela leaves hospital

Christopher Torchia, Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The building that houses South Africa's highest court, made partly with bricks from an apartheid-era prison, symbolizes what Nelson Mandela hoped his country would become, a haven of tolerance wiser for the nation's past anguish...

South Africa comments split family of Oscar Pistorius

John Leicester, Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A remarkably public feud erupted Tuesday within the family of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian charged with murdering his girlfriend...

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Mandela visited in hospital by family

Mandela improving, had restful day

In South Africa, Easter prayers for Mandela

Idris Elba says his upcoming Mandela biopic is 'hands down the best'

Mandela responds well to treatment

Nelson Mandela returns to hospital

Central African Republic president overthrown by rebels

Bodies exhumed in killings tied to Winnie Mandela

Nelson Mandela leaves hospital

South Africa comments split family of Oscar Pistorius

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