Sick Nobel Laureate: Hope for Mandela's recovery fades

Wrestles with the death of Nelson Mandela? South Africa's national hero has lost, according to a court document days before consciousness. But the country's government is contrary to the reports.

Hamburg / Cape Town - South Africa fears for Nelson Mandela. The 94-year-old is held devices on the life and struggles with the supposed death. The court documents show that became public on Wednesday.

Former ANC president Nelson Mandela hospitalized

Nelson Mandela
State of South Africa's national hero more critical

South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela fighting for his life. In the streets of Johannesburg, the people pray for their former president.
Pretoria - South Africa fears on to get his critically ill national hero Nelson Mandela. However, a positive trend was unexpectedly reported on Thursday.

"He's much better than last night, when I saw him", said South African President Jacob Zuma on his second visit to the clinic in Pretoria within 24 hours. The health of the 94-year-old is still "critical but stable", the Presidential Office.

Nelson Mandela in hospital kidneys given in needs dialysis

Nelson Mandela "He's still on the eyes"
His kidneys are not working, he needs dialysis every three hours. South Africa awaits the death of Nelson Mandela. His daughter and granddaughter report from the visit to the clinic.

Mandela's grandson and great-grandson take flowers in front of the clinic reception. The people of South Africa have large share of the health Mandela.

The family of former South African President Nelson Mandela has prepared the country on Thursday for the approaching death of the anti-apartheid hero. His condition was "very critical. From one moment to the next, anything can happen," his eldest daughter Makaziwe Mandela told the station SAFM. However, her father, her eyes still open and responsive to touch.

Nelson Mandela is so important for Barack Obama

U.S. PRESIDENT ON THE WAY TO SOUTH AFRICA
Mandela is so important for Obama
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He was his hero, that Barack Obama had said about Nelson Mandela. He could meet him only once so far: 2005 in Washington

South Africa prays for Nelson Mandela.
For days, the citizens of the country fearing for their icon Nelson Mandela (94), is in hospital in Pretoria.
Before the clinic persevere trailer. At the bedside of the South African national heroes always find a family member, even senior politicians come to visit.
Well hope to germinate: Mandela's condition was now much better than it was a few days ago, says ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
"I'm not a doctor, but I can say that compared to how he was a few days ago, there has been a significant improvement," she told reporters before Mandela's former home in Soweto. The two were married from 1958 to 1996.

Suu Kyi: Democracy must be in the power of the people

Friday 15 June 2012, 15:39 clock, clock 19:09 Updated
For 24 years, Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was no longer in Europe. Now she has the freedom to pass and return. In an interview with the Western Swiss television RTS she says, where it derives its power - and why they shy away from comparisons with Nelson Mandela.

Interview with Aung San Suu Kyi (English)

Suu Kyi has been working the late '80s and for the non-violent democratization of their country. So far, she leaned out of fear, no longer allowed to enter Burma, a number of ways from, to go abroad. But now the 66 year old on a European tour. Your first stop took them to Switzerland.
Around the world, Burma's parliament for their physical and mental strength is admired. The secret lies in their belief and the knowledge of good friends, as explained in an interview with Suu Kyi RTS journalist Darius Rochebin. At the moment she got back her passport and thus their freedom, she recalls, but not exactly - it has picked up the document does not own.
Suu Kyi: The most important thing is the people

Denis Goldberg fought alongside Nelson Mandela against apartheid

In the struggle against apartheid, he sat down side by side with Nelson Mandela and for the human rights of black people in South Africa. He also sat for a long time so in prison. On Wednesday the civil rights visited the Comenius School and talked about his experiences.

Denis Goldberg said in the Comenius course on the history of apartheid and the current situation in South Africa.
Mettingen. "Whatever you ask, it's a good question, there are no stupid questions." Denis Goldberg, it is important to deepen that around 60 young people not only listen, but also by what they hear their own thoughts and questions. The South Africans in the Comenius School a welcome guest, and has already tied up a lot of students with its impressive descriptions. On Wednesday, he talks about the history of apartheid and the current political situation in his homeland. The 79-year-old remembers his time as a fighter against apartheid - side by side with Nelson Mandela and how that as a member of the African National Congress (ANC), which this year celebrates its 100th anniversary. Like Mandela, Goldberg has been sitting for decades in prison before he in the 1990s witnessed the birth of South African democracy.
The "worst months of my life," he experienced after his arrest. The apartheid regime had wanted to make clear "that we are terrorists," says Goldberg, and is glad to escape with his life, because really, "she wanted to see hang us," he reveals how inhuman and brutal the regime.

Switzerland and the apartheid regime

For anchoring the legal racial segregation in South Africa in 1950
opened the Swiss company Ciba (now Novartis), Roche, BBC (now ABB) and
Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS, now UBS) branches in the Cape

In 1956 the Association founded in Zurich in Switzerland and South
Africa, which served as the Chamber of Commerce.

In 1960 the police killed 69 black demonstrators at Sharpeville. After
a general strike, the African National Congress liberation
organization ANC was banned.

1963 the UN imposed an arms delivery to South Africa ban. Switzerland
has stepped this.

In 1964 ANC leader Nelson Mandela and other activists sentenced to
life imprisonment.

Swiss banks founded in 1968 to purchase a pool of South African gold.

Until the late 1980s, Swiss banks bought South African gold for at
least 300 billion francs.

1974 limited the annual Federal investment in South Africa to 250
million francs (300 million francs in 1980). The upper limit was
regularly circumvented.

Came after the 1976 uprising in Soweto in the whole country around 600
people died.

1986, Switzerland supported South African NGO, campaigning for an end
to apartheid and democracy.

Pretoria in 1990 lifted the ban of the ANC. On 11 February was
released Nelson Mandela. On 8 June he met during his visit to
Switzerland, the former Swiss Foreign Minister Rene Felber.

In April 1994 the ANC won the elections superior, Mandela became South
Africa's first black president.