Former South African president Nelson Mandela entered the hospital on June 8 with a lung infection. For a while, his doctors said he was improving. But on Sunday, they said his condition had become critical. Recurring lung infections is a serious medical condition in elderly patients and it raises many issues for doctors as well as families.
South Africans and admirers around the world expressed their feelings for Nelson Mandela, the man identified with transforming South Africa from white minority rule to a multiracial democracy.
In Johannesburg Monday, people called him Madiba explaining, "It's very emotional, and I feel for my children. This is very important for them to feel what an amazing man Madiba was
