South African President Jacob Zuma speaks to school children before a political rally of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Soweto township in Johannesburg, Friday June 14, 2013. Former South African president Nelson Mandela remained hospitalized for the seventh day with an occurring lung infection.
Framed pictures hang in the office of former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela at the newly renovated Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Houghton, Johannesburg, June 11, 2013. A number of documents, including Mandela's first official passport and letters he wrote to his family and friends while he was a prisoner at Robben Island, are kept at the centre. Mandela remained in a "serious but stable" condition in a Pretoria hospital on Tuesday after four days of treatment for a lung infection, the government said. The picture at left by photographer Peter Magubane shows Mandela (hand raised) with late African National Congress (ANC) president Oliver Tambo while at right is a portrait of Mandela by photographer Peter Morey.
This picture taken on May 15, 2011 shows then president of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, Julius Malema, giving a speech during an ANC political meeting in Soweto. The expelled ANC leader Julius Malema said he wanted to join the opposition and found his own political party in an interview published in the South African daily The Star on June 11, 2013. Malema was reportedly consulting his supporters with a view to establish a movement that would 'restore the dignity of blacks' and reduce inequality between rich and poor.
South African anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela waves to the press as he arrives at the Elysee Palace, 07 June 1990, in Paris, to have talks with French president Francois Mitterrand. Nelson Mandela, who was released from jail on 11 February 1990, is in Paris for a two-day official visit.
A man sits next to paintings of the late ANC president Oliver Tambo (L), South African anti-apartheid activist Walter Sisulu and African National Congress (ANC) leader and former South African president Nelson Mandela (R) at a shop house in Soweto, June 9, 2013. Mandela, who became a global symbol of triumph over adversity and South Africa's first black leader in 1994 after the defeat of apartheid, was hospitalised early on Saturday after his already frail health worsened.
South African President and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela explains to his supporters, 24 June 1996 in Mzinga, at a rally for 26 June local elections that the cap he is wearing says.
