Nightly News   |  December 08, 2012

South Africa’s Nelson Mandela hospitalized

Nelson Mandela, an icon of peace from South Africa, was hospitalized for routine procedures on Saturday. NBC’s Lester Holt has more.

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>>> mandela is in the hospital tonight, but officials say there's no cause for alarm. they say he's undergoing tests that had been planned for some time. the 94-year-old mandela has been in increasingly frail health and has made few public appearances in recent years.