- President Jacob Zuma said that Mandela was doing well
- Former South African president taken to Military Hospital in Pretoria
- Frail Mr Mandela has not made a public appearance in two years
- Undisclosed condition is the latest health scare for Mr Mandela in recent years
By Hayley Dixon
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South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela is currently in hospital but the public have been assured there is 'no cause for alarm' over the 94-year-old icon's health.?
A statement issued by a spokesman for the current President Jacob Zuma said that Mandela was doing well and was receiving medical care 'which is consistent for his age'.
No other details were given on the health of the former leader who has not made a public appearance in two years.
South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela, pictured in August 2010, has been admitted to military hospital for tests but the public have been assured there is no cause for alarm
Under observation: Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been taken to the Military Hospital in Pretoria, for treatment for an undisclosed condition, according to a government statement
Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison for fighting racist white rule, became South Africa's first black president in 1994 and served one five-year term.
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He later retired from public life to live in his village of Qunu, and last made a public appearance when his country hosted the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament.?
'We wish Madiba all the best,' President Zuma said in a statement, using Mr Mandela's clan name.
'The medical team is assured of our support as they look after and ensure the comfort of our beloved founding president of a free and democratic South Africa.'
In February, this year, Mr Mandela spent a night in a hospital for a minor diagnostic surgery to determine the cause of an abdominal complaint.
National hero: Former South African President Nelson Mandela lifts the World Cup trophy after the FIFA's executive committee announced that South Africa will host the 2010 FIFA World Cup
At the time, officials insisted the operation for a long-standing abdominal complaint was planned - and did not reveal there was anything seriously wrong.
President Jacob Zuma's spokesman Mac Maharaj said shortly after Mr Mandela was released from hospital that the Nobel peace laureate had undergone a laparoscopy, a procedure that involves surgeons making an incision in the belly to insert a thin, lighted tube to look at abdominal organs.
'The doctors have decided to send him home as the diagnostic procedure he underwent did not indicate anything seriously wrong with him,' President Jacob Zuma's office added in a statement.
Mr Mandela was also hospitalised in January 2011 with a respiratory infection.
Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie are picture walking hand-in hand as he is released from prison in 1990. He has been hospitalised twice before in the last two years
The former African National Congress leader was forced to cut short a holiday in Cape Town to be flown by helicopter to a Johannesburg private hospital where he was reportedly treated for a collapsed lung.
He was discharged after three days following the scare and returned by ambulance to his home.
While Zuma's statement about the latest health scare offered no further details about who would provide medical attention for Mandela, the nation's military largely has taken over caring for the aging leader.
Freedom: Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton visits the prison cell in Robben Island where the former South African president was held for 18 years of his total 27 years in jail
Mac Maharaj, a presidential spokesman, declined to say whether Mr Mandela had been flown by the military to Pretoria. He also declined to say what the tests were for.
'It's quite normal at his age to be going through those tests,' Mr Maharaj said.
Mr Mandela's hospitalisation comes just days after the crash of a military aircraft flying on an unknown mission near Mr Mandela's rural home in which all 11 onboard were killed.
The plane was flying to a military air base in Mthatha, which is about 17 miles north of Qunu.
Military officials declined to say whether those on board had any part in caring for the Nobel Prize winner.
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