South Africa: Former president says Mandela health improving

“For us, as family, as long as he can still hear and understand what is said to him, and talk to us, we’ll continue to celebrate him,” The Star, a South African newspaper, quoted Ndaba Mandela as saying Thursday. He spoke at a media briefing about a football invitational in South Africa that will be part of celebrations surrounding July 18, Mandela’s 95th birthday.

Mandela was released from prison in 1990 and became South Africa’s first black president in all-race elections in 1994.

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