Reports from the Associated Press reveal that South African president, Nelson Mandela, “is very much alive,” according to his grandson, Ndaba Mandela.

After reports swirled that 95 year-old, Mandela was on his deathbed due to lung failure, it created a wave of sadness that even resulted in America’s president, Barack Obama, traveling to Africa for diplomacy, education and to see him.

Ndaba Mandela told the South African government that his grandfather is still in critical condition but he is stable.

Nelson Mandela is South Africa’s first democratically elected president after 27 years in prison for his fight against white oppression.