{{Nelson Mandela who spent a night in hospital at the weekend for a medical checkup, is doing well but has memory lapses, a close friend said on Monday.}}<\/p>\n
Renowned South African human rights lawyer George Bizos, who defended Mandela during his 1960s treason trial, said that while the 94-year-old is aware of current political events, he forgets at times that his fellow anti-apartheid activists are dead.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately he sometimes forgets that one or two of them had passed on and has a blank face when you tell him that Walter Sisulu and some others are no longer with us,” Bizos told Eyewitness News in an interview published on Monday.<\/p>\n
Sisulu, the former leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) who was Mandela’s political mentor, died nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n
Bizos, who has been friends with Mandela since the 1940s, paid a visit to the Nobel Peace Prize winner at his Johannesburg home just over a week ago.<\/p>\n
“I saw him about 10 days ago. He looked okay,” said Bizos.<\/p>\n
Mandela was on Saturday admitted into hospital for “a scheduled medical check-up to manage the existing conditions in line with his age”, the South African presidency said.<\/p>\n
The hospitalisation came less than three months after he was treated for a lung infection and gallstones.<\/p>\n
Bizos represented Mandela and other leading anti-apartheid activists including Sisulu and Govan Mbeki, during the infamous 1960s Rivonia Trial that saw Mandela sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n
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