US President Barack Obama left South Africa without seeing his personal hero

Mr Nelson Mandela continued to be in a critical yet stable condition on Monday, the presidency said, beyond three weeks subsequent to the anti-apartheid hero was hospitalised with a repeated lung infection. President Jacob Zuma tried earnestly South Africans to commence planning for Mandela's 95th birthday on July 18. He said in a statement that they must all be able to do something good for humanity on this day, in tribute to their former president. The update came hours subsequent to the US President Barack Obama left South Africa without seeing his personal hero, who has been in intensive care since June 8.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)