Mr
George Bizos, Former President Nelson Mandela’s close friend and long
time lawyer, has said that the memory of the 94-year-old South Africa’s
political icon is fading.
He
told newsmen in Johannesburg on Monday after visiting Mandela that “he
was doing okay” but that his memory was not what it used to be. Bizos
said that Mandela seemed to have forgotten that some of their mutual
friends had died.
“Unfortunately,
he sometimes forgets that one or two of them had passed on and his
face is blank when you tell him that Walter Sisulu and some others are
no longer with us,” he said.
Bizos said Mandela was aware of current political events but didn’t comment on them.
“If
he was asked ‘What do you think about this or that issue?, his
inevitable response was ‘Go ask my president’. He never wanted to second
guess his successor,” Bizos said.
It
would be recalled that Mandela was discharged from a Pretoria hospital
on Sunday after undergoing a routine test and medical check up over the
weekend.
He was said to be recovering at home in Houghton, Johannesburg. (NAN)
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