Lehlogonolo Nkosi, 7, holds a portrait of Nelson Mandela as she and her grandmother Florah, 52, unseen, leave after visiting the entrance where flowers and get-well messages have been left by well-wishers at the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Wednesday, July 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
JOHANNESBURG -- Nelson Mandela is being kept alive by a breathing machine and faces "impending death," court documents show, as his family gravesite was restored Thursday.
Mandela's health is "perilous" and he is being kept alive by life support, according to documents filed in the court case that resulted in the remains of the former president's three deceased children being reburied Thursday in their original graves.
"The anticipation of his impending death is based on real and substantial grounds," the court filing said.
"He's basically gone," said Charlene Smith, an authorized biographer of the former anti-apartheid leader. "He's not there. He's not there." READ More....
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