Mandela marks one month in hospital

July 08, 2013 23:12

South African icon Nelson Mandela has now spent one full month in a Pretoria hospital, where the elderly former president is being treated for a recurring lung infection.

Meanwhile, an ugly family feud rages outside the hospital.Mandela will turn 95 in just 10 days, a huge milestone for a man whose life spanned both South Africa's dimmest and brightest days.

As the nation's first black president, he is credited with steering the divided country away from civil war and into an era of peace and democracy.

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