JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – President Jacob Zuma has met with South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela this morning.
A statement from the presidency Sunday said that Zuma found Mandela “comfortable and in good care.” It offered no other details about why Mandela, 94, is receiving medical tests at a Pretoria hospital.
South Africa’s military has been in charge of medical care for the aging leader since he had a respiratory infection in 2011.
Mandela spent 27 years in prison for fighting racist white rule. He became South Africa’s first black president in 1994 and served one five-year term. He’s since retired from public life and is frail.
FILE -In this June 17, 2010 file photo, former South African President, Nelson Mandela leaves the chapel after attending the funeral of his great-granddaughter Zenani Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa. South African President Jacob Zuma says that former President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital in Pretoria to undergo tests. Zuma issued a statement Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 saying that Mandela is "doing well and there is no cause for alarm." (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Pool, File)
South Africa’s president visits former leader Nelson Mandela, who is in hospital
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