With no update on Mandela's condition, friend urges: 'It's time to let him go' [View all]

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN


From Faith Karimi and Robyn Curnow, CNN

updated 12:50 PM EDT, Sun June 9, 2013

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'We will release him'

On Sunday, the front page of South Africa's Sunday Times read, "It's time to let him go."

The paper quoted Mandela's longtime friend Andrew Mlangeni as saying that the time may have come for South Africans to say goodbye to the beloved icon.

"You have been coming to the hospital too many times. Quite clearly you are not well and there is a possibility you might not be well again," Mlangeni told the paper.

"Once the family releases him, the people of South Africa will follow. We will say thank you, God, you have given us this man, and we will release him too," Mlangeni said.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/09/world/africa/south-africa-mandela/index.html