SOUTH Africa's former president, Nelson Mandela, 94, was admitted to hospital in Pretoria last night to undergo tests.
The office of the nation's current president, Jacob Zuma, said Mandela was doing well and there was "no cause for alarm".
Mandela spent more than two decades in jail under the white minority apartheid regime.
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