FILE - This photo taken Monday Aug. 6, 2012 shows former South African president, Nelson Mandela, when he met with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, unseen, at his home in Qunu, South Africa. Mandela on Friday Dec 14 2012 entered the seventh day of a hospital stay for a lung infection as questions grow about where he is receiving treatment. The 94-year-old patriarch of South Africa's democracy has been hospitalized since Saturday, first undergoing tests and later being diagnosed with the ailment. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)
FILE - This photo taken Monday Aug. 6, 2012 shows former South African president, Nelson Mandela, when he met with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, unseen, at his home in Qunu, South Africa. Mandela on Friday Dec 14 2012 entered the seventh day of a hospital stay for a lung infection as questions grow about where he is receiving treatment. The 94-year-old patriarch of South Africa's democracy has been hospitalized since Saturday, first undergoing tests and later being diagnosed with the ailment. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)
Members of the media train their cameras on former president Nelson Mandela's home, (unseen) in Johannesburg Friday, Dec 14, 2012. As the 94-year-old patriarch of South Africa's democracy entered his seventh day of hospitalization for a recurring lung infection, confusion grew as the government appeared to contradict itself over where he is being treated. (AP Photo)
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela remains hospitalized for an eighth day for a lung infection.
The 94-year-old political leader was admitted to a hospital near South Africa's capital, Pretoria, on Dec. 8 for tests. Government officials later said Mandela was suffering from a recurrent lung infection, an affliction he had in 2011 as well.
Government officials have offered contradictory information about where Mandela is in recent days. On Saturday, the South African National Editors' Forum issued a statement criticizing the government for offering "misleading statements" about the former president's whereabouts.
Mandela is revered for being a leader of the struggle against racist white rule in South Africa. He served one five-year term as president before retiring from public life.
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