Nelson Mandela In Critical Condition

Nelson Mandela's health has deteriorated and he is now in critical condition, the South African government said Sunday.

The office of President Jacob Zuma said in a statement that he had visited the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader at a hospital Sunday evening and was informed by the medical team that Mandela's condition had become critical in the past 24 hours.

"The doctors are doing everything possible to get his condition to improve and are ensuring that Madiba is well-looked after and is comfortable. He is in good hands," Zuma said in the statement, using Mandela's clan name.

Zuma also met Graca Machel, Mandela's wife, at the hospital in Pretoria and discussed the former leader's condition, according to the statement. Zuma was accompanied on the visit by Cyril Ramaphosa, the deputy president of the country's ruling party, the African National Congress.

Mandela was jailed for 27 years under white racist rule and released in 1990. He then played a leading role in steering the divided country from the apartheid era to democracy, becoming South Africa's first black president in all-race elections in 1994. He was hospitalized on June 8 for what the government said was a recurring lung infection.

In Sunday's statement, Zuma also discussed the government's acknowledgement a day earlier that an ambulance carrying Mandela to the Pretoria hospital two weeks ago had engine trouble, requiring the former president to be transferred to another ambulance for his journey. Pretoria, South Africa's capital, lies about 50 km (30 miles) from Johannesburg, where Mandela has been living.

"There were seven doctors in the convoy who were in full control of the situation throughout the period. He had expert medical care," Zuma said. "The fully equipped military ICU ambulance had a full complement of specialist medical staff including intensive care specialists and ICU nurses. The doctors also dismissed the media reports that Madiba suffered cardiac arrest. There is no truth at all in that report."

Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is seen by many around the world as a symbol of reconciliation, and Zuma appealed to South Africans and the international community to pray for the ailing ex-president, his family and the medical team attending to him.

The ruling party expressed concern about the deterioration in Mandela's health.

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Woman: Let wisdom shine your way

 Going through my documents today I found this that I thought was important to share;-

1.      Beauty attracts men but
wisdom keeps them.

2.      Elegance catches men's
attention but intelligence
convinces them.

3.      Nagging irritates men but
'constructive silence weakens
them.

4.      The 'boy' in everyman pumps
out occasionally, your ability to
handle this, is a woman's truest
maturity.

5.      Men have secret struggles and
silent pains. Should you ever find
them out exhibit the greatest
maturity

6.      In the long-run your 'words'
matter more to a man than your
'looks'. So invest the right words.

7.       Earn a man's respect and he will
consider you the yard stick 4 all
his action.

8.      Learn to mould the moods of
your man.

9.      Men will naturally give u their
futures if they can recall your
maturity in yesterday's issues

10.  Women are everywhere but
queens are scarce. Let the queen
in you come alive and he will hold
you in high esteem.

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The power of a thoughtful mind II

Thinking is what humans do best sometimes it's hard to stop.It can either build you or destroy you,our life rotates around thoughts.Creation is borne by thoughts."Let us make man in our own image." What was that? A thought portrayed through words. A favorite writer Norman Peale once said empty pockets never held anyone back only empty brains can do that.

What power then lies in a thoughtful mind?

We all love beautiful things,success and fame but how do we achieve them? The key is simple "change your thoughts and change your world" If you want to have that beautiful woman/handsome man visualise yourself with the most beautiful woman and you will get her.How do i know? There was a time when i had no penny,three meals were a luxury but deep within me i felt  i was destined for greatness.My thoughts were tunned to just that,"am destined for greatness" i worked hard both in and outside school with that mentality.Lo and behold! My desire was fulfilled,i never allowed waves/mist to block my thoughts. When you allow your mind to be filled with negative thoughts you will surely get the negative things only.When you feel bad yourself,you block the good things from happening to you and instead attract more bad situations that will continue to make you feel bad about yourself.You have the power to control what happens around,you have a will that every other creature doesn't have.Did you know that the Angels envy you? They don't know what it feels like to command something to happen "Change your thoughts and change your world"

As much as we form our world with thoughts &make the world go round,we can also kill ourselves with thoughts.When you worry about tomorrow your mind is at work and if worrying doesn't stop,slowly by slowly you will be killing yourself.The safest and sweetest way to commit suicide is to think negatively <hey! don't try this at home!>Think thoughts of perfection. Imperfect thoughts are the cause of all humanity's ills, including disease, poverty, and unhappiness. When we think negative thoughts we are cutting ourselves off from our rightful.The key is not to mind about the unknown, focus on the present don't run ahead of your time."Don't take tomorrow to bed with you" You will acquire much more than you can imagine and remember repeating the same thoughts eventually becomes a habit and in the short run it becomes a reflex.The question is do you want to be happy?

               "There's nothing good or bad only thinking makes it so."

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The Power of a Thoughtful Mind

Today I would like to share with you one of the most important things in our lives. It is important simply because it is the cause of either our success of failure.

How many times have you ever taken a keen look at your thoughts and considered the way they affect your goals?

Thought can be defined differently just to fit the concept someone would like you to understand it.

As for me today, I would like you to understand thought as the vibration of the mind to prioritize or consider something carefully.

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