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Two South African football fans wearing makarapas pose on July 4, 2013 near a Brazilian football team jersey (C, R) with players' autographs and messages that has been given on behalf of the Confederations Cup finalists, Brazil , presented by Fifa President, Brazilian Football Confederation President and his Spanish counterpart on June 30, 2013 in Brazil, and is exhibited on July 4, 2013 at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg. 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 wife Graca Machel said Thursday. "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 (Photo by ALEXANDER JOE / AFP via Getty Images)