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'Unchanged' - Mandela still 'serious but stable'

Published:Tuesday | June 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM
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A worshipper offers weekend prayers and prayers for former president Nelson Mandela on a hill overlooking the city in Johannesburg last Saturday.
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A worshipper weeps as she attends morning mass at the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Soweto, South Africa, on Sunday. Churchgoers were urged to pray for Mandela.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP):

Nelson Mandela was in serious but stable condition in a Pretoria hospital for the third day yesterday with a recurring lung infection, and a foundation led by retired archbishop Desmond Tutu described the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero as an "extraordinary gift" to South Africa.

As family members visited South Africa's first black president in the hospital, the government announced, in only the second communication on Mandela since he was hospitalised last Saturday, that his condition was "unchanged".