Nelson Mandela spends fourth day in hospital for pneumonia

It was unclear how long South Africa’s first black president would remain
hospitalised.

Mr Mandela’s recent health troubles have triggered an outpouring of prayers
but have also seen South Africans come to terms with the mortality of the
revered Nobel Peace Prize winner.

On Sunday Christians celebrated Easter Sunday offering prayers for Mr Mandela.

“Yes, we are concerned that he is ailing, and he is getting worse,
naturally we should be concerned. I think this is the question in the back
of many of our minds, when is the end? Is he going to die?” Father
Sebastian Rossouw, an assistant parish priest at the Regina Mundi Catholic
Church in Soweto township told parishioners.

“We should rather celebrate what he stood for, and what he continues to
stand for, that he has been an icon of peace, an icon of service.”

The Regina Mundi church was once a pivotal centre in the resistance against
apartheid, offering shelter to activists.

The former president is idolised at home, where he is seen as the architect of
South Africa’s peaceful transition from white minority-ruled police state to
hope-filled democracy.

Nearly 20 years after he came to power in 1994, Mandela remains a unifying
symbol in a country still riven by racial tensions and deep inequality.

Edited for Telegraph.co.uk by Barney
Henderson

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