After surviving several false ‘dead alert’, it has emerged that former South African President and Freedom fighter-Nelson Mandela is still sick—and he is unable to speak.
Mandela who is 95 years old has undergone several lungs infection treatment and currently, the tubes being used to clear his lungs have rendered him speechless.
Mandela, who spent 27 years in apartheid jails before becoming South Africa’s first black president in 1994, has faced several health scares.
According to CNN;
Tubes used to clear his lungs prevent Nelson Mandela from speaking, and he uses facial expressions to communicate with doctors and family, according to his former wife.
“He remains very sensitive to any germs, so he has to be kept literally sterile,” Winnie Madikizela-Mandela told South Africa’s Sunday Independent newspaper in an article published Sunday. “The bedroom there [at his home] is like an ICU ward.”