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JOHANNESBURG: Former South African admiral Nelson Mandela was accepted to hospital on Saturday for analysis for a "long-standing belly complaint", the government said.

A account said the 93-year-old anti-apartheid baton bare specialist medical treatment. It admired him a accelerated recovery, but provided no added details.

Mandela, who is accepted to be in breakable health, spent several canicule at Johannesburg's Milpark hospital aloof over a year ago with respiratory problems.

Since again he has not appeared in public, and has spent his time amid Johannesburg and his affiliated apple of Qunu in the bankrupt Eastern Cape.

As South Africa's aboriginal atramentous president, Mandela occupies a axial position in the anima of a country that was disqualified by the 10 percent white boyhood until the aboriginal all-race elections in 1994.

Earlier this month, Admiral Jacob Zuma and the axial coffer issued a new set of coffer addendum address his image.

Mandela has continued back aloof from alive accord in backroom and accessible activity in Africa's better economy, accepting stood bottomward at the end of his aboriginal appellation in appointment in 1999.

His aftermost above accessible actualization was in July 2010 at the final of the World Cup in Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium.