Anti-apartheid icon and Africa’s foremost elder statesman, Nelson Mandela, 94, who is recuperating from a lung infection in a South African military hospital since last weekend, has been honoured by that country’s president, Jacob Zuma. Zuma unveiled a statue of Nelson Mandela on Thursday at Naval Hill Bloemfontein, which next week hosts the ruling African National Congress party’s convention. According to Zuma, “We will be able to yet again pay tribute to a man who became a symbol of both our struggle for freedom and the free and democratic South Africa.”
