buzzz worthy. . . Ailing statesman presses one year closer to the century mark. He turned 95 on July 18 in a S. African hospital. JOHANNESBURG, July 17, 2013 (AFP) – Former South African president Nelson Mandela will spend his 95th birthday in hospital Thursday, but was said to be making “remarkable” progress. As admirers around the world prepare to honour his legacy through a tidal wave of charitable acts, Mandela’s youngest daughter said her father was now able to communicate and watch television. “He is making remarkable progress,” Zindzi told Britain’s Sky News adding that when she visited him on Tuesday he was “watching TV with his headphones”. “He responds very well… with his eyes, and he nods and sometimes he lifts his hand like to shake your hand.” After six often fraught weeks in hospital for South Africa’s national icon, that was welcome news to the many South Africans planning to mark his 95 years. Children in schools around the ...
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