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Graca Machel, the wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, gives a press conference in Johannesburg on July 4, 2013. During a nearly one month battle for his life in hospital, ailing South African icon Nelson Mandela has occasionally been uncomfortable but has not been in pain, his Machel said today. “Now it is about 25 days we have been in hospital,” Machel said, giving thanks for the outpouring of well wishes from around the world for the Nobel peace laureate. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER JOE