The 94-year-old was being
treated by a team of doctors at his home for a recurrence of a long-standing
lung infection but in the early hours of this morning
The decision was taken to
transfer him to hospital after his condition deteriorated, the South African
presidency said. Mac Maharaj, President Jacob Zuma's spokesman, said Mr
Mandela's health was "serious this time," adding: "Every day that
he gets older it gets more serious."
"The problem is that
his infection reoccurred," he told The Telegraph. "At 1.30am today
the doctors came to the conclusion that his condition had deteriorated enough
that it warranted hospital treatment."
Mr Mandela is known to have
been on and off a ventilator in recent months but is understood to be breathing
on his own this morning.
His wife Graca, and other
family members, are at his bedside in an undisclosed hospital in Pretoria, the
nation's capital.
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