Nelson Mandela's close family members gathered to hear a sombre prayer wishing him a "peaceful, perfect, end" as he lay in hospital in critical condition with his life seemingly slipping away.
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| Nelson Mandela's close family members gathered to hear a sombre prayer wishing him a "peaceful, perfect, end" |
Cape Town Archbishop Thabo Makgoba visited Pretoria's Mediclinic Heart
Hospital late on Tuesday to pray with wife Graca Machel "at this hard
time of watching and waiting".
Mr
Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, who spent 27 years behind bars
for his struggle under white minority rule and went on to become South
Africa's first black president, was admitted on June 8 with a recurrent lung
infection.
During a 19-day vigil, his family, and the world, have watched as the
94-year-old slipped from a stable to a critical condition.
Many now fear for the man who, in defeating apartheid, changed the course of
history and inspired millions across the world.
The archbishop's prayer seemed to echo a growing feeling of inevitability
about Mandela's condition that is increasingly voiced by South Africans, to
whom he remains a moral giant, even though he stepped back from public life
a decade ago.
Source: telegraph
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