{{Nelson Mandela has been admitted to a hospital for a scheduled medical check-up, South Africa’s presidency says.}}<\/p>\n
A spokesman for President Jacob Zuma said there was “no need for panic” and that doctors were treating Mandela for a pre-existing condition consistent with his age.<\/p>\n
Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement that 94-year-old Mandela went to a hospital in Pretoria, the capital, on Saturday afternoon, without revealing any more details about the condition of the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader.<\/p>\n
It is Mandela’s second period of hospital treatment in less than three months. He was hospitalised for nearly three weeks in December before going home on Decemeber 26.<\/p>\n
At that time, he was treated for a lung infection and had a surgical procedure to remove gallstones.<\/p>\n
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has a history of lung problems dating back to when he contracted tuberculosis as a political prisoner. He spent 27 years in prison, including 18 years on the windswept Robben Island off Cape Town.<\/p>\n
He became president of Africa’s biggest economy in 1994 after the first all-race elections brought an end to white-minority apartheid rule.<\/p>\n
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