Wife Graca Machel Visits Hospital....Winnie Mandela Said To Leave Hospital In Tears...Students Send Well Wishes/Breaking News: Nelson Mandela Has Reportedly Been Hospitalized Amid Growing Concerns Over His Health.

Nelson Mandela Foundation

We can confirm that Mr. Mandela is at Milpark hospital undergoing routine tests. 
He is in no danger and is in good spirits.

Media statement on President Mandela

January 27, 2011 The Presidency calls for calm and restraint amid reports that the media is camping outside a Johannesburg hospital where former President Nelson Mandela is hospitalised.

President Mandela is comfortable and is well looked after by a good team of medical specialists.

We urge the media to afford him the dignity and respect that he is entitled to as the countrys founding democratic President, as a national hero and also as a citizen of the Republic.

The media should balance the quest for stories with acting within the bounds of human decency and ensuring the respect for human dignity. The doctors also need to be allowed to do their work without undue pressure.

President Zuma, who is attending the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, is kept abreast of developments by the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Ms Lindiwe Sisulu, whose department is responsible for the health care of current and former Presidents.

President Zuma wishes former President Mandela well and requests that the family be accorded space to support him in privacy and dignity.

Issued by: The Presidency
Pretoria

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Graca Machel visited Milpark hospital in Johannesburg on Thursday where her husband, former president Nelson Mandela, was being treated. Machel arrived at 3pm, almost 24 hours after official word was last received on Mandela's condition. Mandela, 92, was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday for what the Nelson Mandela Foundation called "routine tests".

Media flocked to the hospital on Wednesday and many kept an overnight vigil. Scores of journalists continued to gather amid tight security on Thursday.

Children at McAuley House Primary School, neighbouring the hospital, shouted from classroom windows: "Get well Madiba, we love you Madiba".

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was in tears after visiting Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg on Thursday where former president Nelson Mandela was being treated

She wiped her eyes and blew her nose as she left the hospital around 1.30pm.

Madikizela-Mandela was with Mandela's eldest grandson, chief Mandla Mandela and other family members.

Anti-apartheid activist Albertina Sisulu earlier entered the hospital in a wheelchair and was later seen driving out. She smiled and waved at photographers.

Justice Minister Jeff Radebe, Mandela's personal assistant Zelda la Grange, and the daughter of Mandela's wife Graca Machel arrived earlier. Senior military officials were also seen entering hospital grounds.

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Nelson Mandela has been taken to hospital amid growing concerns over his health, according to media reports.

The media gathered outside the Milpark hospital in Johannesburg on Wednesday night to wait for news about the 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon and former South African president.

However, a statement released by Mandela's foundation said he was undergoing routine tests.

Mandela was in no danger and is in good spirits, Sello Hatang, spokesman for the Nelson Mandela Foundation said in a statement.

Mandela, the first black president of South Africa and one of the world's most revered statesmen, lives in Johannesburg.

He spent 27 years in prison after being arrested for plotting an armed struggle against the apartheid government. His release in 1990 paved the way for the end of white rule and he became president in 1994. He stepped down after one term in power in 1999.

South Africas President Jacob Zuma wont be returning from the World Economic Forum in Davos, SAPA reported, citing Zizi Kodwa, his spokesman.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner was last seen in public at the football World Cup Final in July last year, when he was briefly driven around the pitch on the back of a golf buggy.

Close family members, including his wife Graca Machel, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, visited him during the course of Wednesday afternoon, prompting speculation that his condition was worse than initially reported.

According to The Australian newspaper, Archbishop Desmond Tutu sparked intense debate earlier Wednesday about Mandela's health after he replied to questions from reporters. "I saw him last week," Archbishop Tutu said in Cape Town. "He was all right I mean, he's 92, man, you know? And he's frail."