Former SA leader Nelson Mandela in hospital

(Vatican Radio) South Africa’s anti-Apartheid leader and former president, Nelson Mandela, is again in hospital being treated for a recurrent lung infection. The 94 year-old Mandela was admitted to hospital on Saturday morning. His condition is reported as ‘serious but stable’. Mandela served as president from 1994 until 1999, after successfully negotiating an end to Apartheid and a multi-racial general election. He voluntarily handed over power at the end of his term as president – something the editor of South Africa’s largest Catholic weekly newspaper, the Southern Cross, Gunther Simmermacher, told Vatican Radio was significant not only for South Africa. “Mandela’s presidency certainly set a template for peaceful transition,” said Simmermacher, not only for South Africa, but for other countries, as well.” For his work toward non-violent reform and national reconciliation, Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1993, together with former president F.W. de Klerk. Listen: