Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie wants his Qunu home

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The ex-wife of South Africa’s first black President, Nelson Mandela, has demanded his village home for her children, potentially triggering the first legal dispute since his death.

Winnie Madikiela-Mandela’s lawyers said she was asserting her “customary rights” by demanding the house, the BBC reports.

Mr. Mandela’s estate was provisionally valued at 46m rand ($4.3m; £2.5m) following his death in December 5 last year.

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Doctors treating Nelson Mandela said he was in a “permanent vegetative state”

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Doctors treating Nelson Mandela said he was in a “permanent vegetative state” and advised his family to turn off his life support machine, according to court documents dated June 26, obtained by AFP Thursday.

“He is in a permanent vegetative state and is assisted in breathing by a life support machine,” said a legal filing related to a family dispute over reburying the remains of three of Mandela’s children.

“The Mandela family have been advised by the medical practitioners that his life support machine should be switched off.

“Rather than prolonging his suffering, the Mandela family is exploring this option as a very real probability.”

The “Certificate of Urgency” document was obtained from a lawyer representing Mandela family members who had successfully sought a court order to return the disputed children’s remains to the revered South African leader’s childhood home, after a grandson had them moved to his own village.

The document was presented to South Africa’s Eastern Cape High Court as President Jacob Zuma re

ported that Mandela’s health had faltered and cancelled a trip to Mozambique.

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Mandela’s daughters to sue him over rights to property !!!

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NELSON Mandela’s daughters are suing him for the rights to his artworks and control of his millions, it has been reported.  According to the Star on Monday, Zenani and Makaziwe Mandela intended fighting an order of Johannesburg High Court in April 2004, which gave Mandela the right to instruct Ismail Ayob, his then lawyer, to stop managing his financial, personal and legal affairs.

The order also barred Ayob from selling any of Mandela’s artworks.

Mandela Back In Hospital For Check-Up

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Global peace icon and former statesman Nelson Mandela was hospitalised Saturday for a “scheduled medical check-up”, the South African presidency said, months after he underwent treatment for lung infection and gallstones. “Former president Nelson Mandela was admitted to hospital in Pretoria this afternoon, 9 March 2013, for a scheduled medical checkup to manage the existing conditions in line with his age,” said presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj in a statement.
“Doctors are conducting tests and have thus far indicated that there is no cause for any alarm,” he added.

Zuma Unveils Mandela Statue As He Recovers From Lung Infection

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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.”