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After being hospitalized due to a serious lung infection, Nelson Mandela is reportedly showing positive signs of recovering!

The 94 year-old has spent the last five days at the Mediclinic heart hospital in Pretoria where he was in serious but stable condition, but current South African president Jacob Zuma says things are finally looking up!

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Keep your thoughts positive!

Former South African president Nelson Mandela has been hospitalized due to another lung infection. He is currently in serious but stable condition.

The 94-year-old, first black president of South Africa suffered as his "condition deteriorated and he was transferred to a Pretoria hospital," the office of South African President Jacob Zuma reports.

The office of the current president has released a statement:

"The former President is receiving expert medical care and doctors are doing everything possible to make him better and comfortable. President Jacob Zuma, on behalf of government and the nation, wishes Madiba a speedy recovery and requests the media and the public to respect the privacy of Madiba and his family."

He has previously been hospitalized with lung infections in December 2012 and as recently as March 2013.

We hope Nelson is able to make it through this hospitalization!

Our thoughts and prayers are with him!

[Image via Danny Clifford/Hottwire.net/WENN.]

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Bella Thorne is one lucky girl!

She's currently seeing the wonderful world, on location in South Africa, filming her new movie Blended.

So not only does she get to see the world and star in a movie (alongside Adam Sandler), she also got to see some pretty kitties!

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Justin Bieber is currently in South Africa, playing two stadium shows in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Aside from doing whatever it is he does to prepare for a big show (reread lyrics/stretch his pelvis for panty melting dance moves) he's getting in some relaxation time.

By relaxation we mean he's exploring Africa's wild side!

He instagrammed a pic of a wild elephant (above) and wrote:

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A couple in South Africa have two sets of babies.

They have a 3-year-old son, a 1-year-old daughter and two cheetahs, Wakuu and Skyla!!

Parents Kim and Hein Schoeman love their babies and they love their big cats, so they all live together!

Since the kids grew up with the cheetahs, they're all one big happy family.

The kids were taught not to run around the cheetahs or ever turn their backs on them, because even though they've been raised together, they're still wild animals.

But apparently the cheetahs are sweethearts and love their human siblings!!

Check out the video (above) to see the cutie cats playing around with their baby buddies!

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Last night, Nelson Mandela was admitted into the hospital after experiencing problems with his ongoing lung infection, and after being worried about his health, reports are stating that he's doing well!

Phew!!

While Mandela is currently in a Pretoria, South African hospital, the presidency wanted everyone to know that Nelson is fighting for his health, he said:

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Damn. Everything is going Oscar Pistorius' way!

After the Valentine's Day death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, the paralympian admitted to shooting and killing the model because he thought she was an intruder, but he DENIED murdering her, which has led him to be freed on bail.

And once he was let go on a measly $112,000 bond, the South African court confiscated his two passports so that he couldn't flee the country, but now, they're allowing him to leave South Africa in order to compete in races.

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