ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />South Africans prayed for Nelson Mandela's recovery on Sunday (June 9) as the 94-year-old former president spent a second day in hospital with a recurring lung infection.<br/> <br />Hundreds gathered to pray for him at Sunday Mass at the Regina Mundi Catholic church in the sprawling Johannesburg township of Soweto.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) SOWETO RESIDENT, MIRRIAM KHUBEKA, SAYING:<br/> <br />"We wish him a speedy recovery, we pray to God that he heals him."<br/> <br />The government had yet to give an update on his condition.
