Updated On: 26 June, 2013 07:39 PM IST | | Agencies
South Africa's ailing peace icon Nelson Mandela has been put on a life-support system following deterioration of his health, three weeks after the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader was hospitalised with a recurring lung infection.
"Mandela is on life support in the Pretoria Heart Clinic where he has been fighting a recurrent lung infection since June 8," a newspaper reported today.u00a0
As the country remained on edge, Congress of Traditional Leaders' president Phathekile Holomisa said Mandela's critical condition is cause for great concern.