Johannesburg - President Jacob
Zuma was admitted to hospital for
tests on Saturday, the presidency
said.
“President Jacob Zuma has today,
June 7, 2014, been admitted to
hospital for tests,” his spokesman
Mac Maharaj said in a statement.
“Yesterday President Zuma was
advised to rest following a
demanding election and transition
programme to the new
administration.”
Maharaj said doctors were satisfied
with Zuma's condition.
He did not say which hospital the
president had been admitted to.
On Friday, the ANC national officials
ordered Zuma to take a break.
“Following a gruelling election
campaign we found that he needed
to rest,” the deputy president Cyril
Ramaphosa said at the Nehawu
special congress in Benoni, on the
East Rand.
“He attended the NEC lekgotla this
morning, and was thereafter sent
packing to go and rest.”
Zuma was scheduled to address the
National Education, Health and
Allied Workers Union congress, but
sent Ramaphosa to deliver his
speech.
ANC secretary general Gwede
Mantashe told reporters at the
ruling party's lekgotla in Irene,
outside Pretoria that the president
was exhausted.
He said Zuma was given time to
recover before he held a Cabinet
lekgotla next week.
