SICK MANDELA UNABLE TO SPEAK

The former South African President have being battling with illness since this year... He is at a critical state... 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. "The bedroom there [at his home] is like an ICU ward."

Mandela, 95, "remains quite ill," she said, but doctors are tending to his needs at his residence in Houghton, a suburb of Johannesburg.

The tubes are used to prevent infection in Mandela, who is said to be stable.

thecodedduo and the rest of the world wish him quick recovery!!!!