- Former South African President Nelson Mandela was admitted to hospital today, the South African Presidency said.
Mandela, 93, “has had a long-standing abdominal complaint and doctors feel it needs proper specialist medical attention,” the presidency said on its website.
Mandela became South Africa’s first black president after apartheid, the official racial segregation policy, ended in 1994. He spent 27 years in prison, fighting for black rights, before he was released in 1990.
Mandela negotiated a peaceful end to the old regime with leaders of South Africa’s white minority government. Three years later, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. He stepped down as president voluntarily in 1999.
Mandela was admitted to Netcare Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg briefly a year ago for acute respiratory infection.
He moved back to Johannesburg Jan. 29 after spending several months at his house in Qunu in the Eastern Cape province, Sunday Times reported on that day, citing Presidential Spokesman Mac Maharaj.
Maharaj didn’t answer a call to his mobile phone today.
Source Bloomberg Business Week
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