With journalists and support crews sitting idle as the world waits for updates on Nelson Mandela, some editors have become desperate for an exclusive.
CNN and Citizen report Nelson Mandela is on life support, and Mac Maharaj says commenting on the matter would break doctor/patient confidentiality.
Gauteng papers have reported that Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla stormed out of a meeting in Qunu after a disagreement over Madiba’s gravesite.
Visitors have been praying for Nelson Mandela and his family after no change in his critical condition was made public.
US President Barack Obama’s South African schedule does not include a visit to former president Nelson Mandela, who is critically ill in hospital.
A few cars have been seen at the Mandela family gravesite in Qunu, while the relatives called an urgent meeting in the village to brief the elders.
No update on his condition means Nelson Mandela will spend his third day in a critical condition, and his 18th day in total in a hospital in Pretoria.
Mac Maharaj has chastised reporters seeking information on Mandela’s health after Jacob Zuma left an address to editors on the youth and the economy.
VIDEO: For Nelson Mandela’s daughter Makaziwe Mandela, the former president’s declining health is not a global event but a deeply personal issue.
President Jacob Zuma on Monday morning confirmed to journalists and editors that former president Nelson Mandela remains in a critical condition.
The notion that SA will dissolve into race riots at the news of Nelson Mandela’s death is so unlikely as to be ridiculous, writes Verashni Pillay.
Former president Nelson Mandela’s condition is now critical, the presidency has confirmed.
Numerous relatives of former president Nelson Mandela visited the Pretoria hospital on Saturday where the struggle icon was spending his 15th day.
The military ambulance that transported Nelson Mandela to hospital two weeks ago broke down due to "engine problems", says the presidency.
CBS has reported that Nelson Mandela has been "unresponsive and has not opened his eyes for days", despite government reports that he is recovering.
Ndaba Mandela has thanked people around the world for sending well-wishes to Madiba who, he says, is expected to be discharged soon.
Every time Nelson Mandela is admitted to hospital his state of health makes headlines around the world, and well-wishers arrive from far and wide.
After communication from Graça Machel and Nelson Mandela’s children, the focus seems to have shifted to his discharge from hospital this week.
Members of the Mandela family have for the first time gathered well-wishes from outside the Pretoria hospital where Nelson Mandela is being treated.
Former president Nelson Mandela’s wife Graça Machel has thanked SA for the outpouring of "love and generosity" during Madiba’s stay in hospital.
An investigation has been opened after two church groups were turned away and some members temporarily arrested at Nelson Mandela’s home in Qunu.
Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a lung infection which has kept him in a serious condition in hospital for a week, says his grandson.
It was quiet outside a Pretoria hospital where former president Nelson Mandela spent another day receiving treatment for a recurring lung infection.
As Nelson Mandela’s condition remains precarious, does he not deserve to be where he spent the happiest moments as a child, asks Khuthala Nandipha.
Prayer services were conducted for Nelson Mandela outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria, as Madiba went into the seventh day of his stay.
Madiba’s prison past may have played a role in his recurrent lung infections.
The public figure of Nelson Mandela has returned to Johannesburg in Marco Cianfanelli’s newly unveiled sculpture, Shadow Boxing.
Healing has taken on a different connotation at Regina Mundi, where the bulk of the Soweto congregation seems prepared to let go of beloved Madiba.
Former president Nelson Mandela’s influence transformed the village, which, in turn, has cast its brightest son in a biblical light.
Bantu Holomisa has warned the ANC against making insensitive statements about the medical condition of former president Nelson Mandela.
VIDEO: Nelson Mandela has been in hospital for six days with a lung infection. South Africans voice their hopes and concerns on Madiba’s health.
Nelson Mandela will loom large in general election campaigns over the coming months, when parties fall for the temptation for an easy boost.