NDTV: South Africa prays for Nelson Mandela's recovery

NDTV reports, "Haunted by death during his long anti-apartheid struggle, Nelson Mandela looked toward his own "eternal sleep" as a man who fulfilled his duty to his people.

He was willing to die for democracy, the young black activist said during the 1963-64 trial that would send him to prison for 27 years.

'It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die,' he told judges of the white-minority apartheid regime.

Nearly 50 years later the 94-year-old is critically ill, fighting a stubborn pulmonary infection."  Click on this link to read more....