The president of South Africa has said Nelson Mandela's condition has improved overnight.
Jacob Zuma said he had been informed by the medical team that Mr Mandela remains critical but is now stable.
In a statement on the Presidential website, Mr Zuma said, "He is much better today than he was when I saw him last night. The medical team continues to do a sterling job. We must pray for Tata's health and wish him well."
President Zuma added that he was "disturbed" by rumours surrounding the former president's health and appealed for respect, privacy and dignity.
Mr Mandela's eldest daughter Makaziwe has led a group of his grandchildren to see the 94-year-old retired statesman in the Pretoria hospital.
Ms Makaziwe said after her visit that Mr Mandela was responding to touch.
"I won't lie, it doesn't look good. But as I say, if we speak to him, he responds and tries to open his eyes. He's still there. He might be waning off, but he's still there," she said.
One granddaughter, Ndileka, described him as "stable" and thanked well-wishers from around the world for their support.
Earlier President Zuma cancelled a visit to Mozambique following consultations with Mr Mandela's doctors.
Asked whether the seriousness of the former president's condition could force changes to the schedule of a planned visit to South Africa this weekend by US President Barack Obama, a spokesperson said it was too early to say.
Mac Maharaj pointed out that Mr Obama was also visiting two other countries, Senegal and Tanzania, starting in the Senegalese capital last night.
Mr Mandela - or Madiba, as he is affectionately known - is revered among most of South Africa's 53 million people as the architect of the 1994 transition to multi-racial democracy after apartheid.
However, his latest hospitalisation - his fourth in six months - has reinforced a realisation that the father of the "Rainbow Nation" will not be around forever.
The deterioration in Mr Mandela's health last weekend to "critical" from "serious but stable" caused a perceptible switch in the national mood, from prayers for his recovery to preparations for a fond farewell.
Well-wishers' messages, bouquets and stuffed animals have piled up outside Mr Mandela's Johannesburg home and the wall of the hospital compound where he is being treated in the heart of the capital.
Schoolchildren, prayer groups, office workers and colleagues who followed Mr Mandela in the anti-apartheid fight have trickled past the hospital day by day, passing journalists and camera crews camped outside the main gate.
Fallen notes have been collected and replaced with new ones, some written in crayon by children and others penned by adults expressing their appreciation for Madiba.
Elsewhere, Mr Obama has said his thoughts and prayers are with the family of Mr Mandela and confirmed he still planned to travel to South Africa in the coming days.
He said if Mr Mandela dies, his legacy would live on for ages.
Mr Obama is in the middle of a three-country tour of Africa.
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