Zuma -- who has 21 children -- embraces his culture, said Mac Maharaj, a government spokesman.
Maharaj's legal representatives hope he will be granted a similar review by the Florida courts.
The 94-year old anti-apartheid hero was admitted to the hospital shortly before midnight and is conscious, Mr. Maharaj said.
"Doctors found his lung infection had returned...and that warranted hospitalization immediately, " said Mac Maharaj, a spokesman for President Jacob Zuma.
But Mr Maharaj has repeatedly said that Mr Mandela is doing well in hospital and there is no cause for alarm.
Lawyer Annabel Harris, of human rights charity Reprieve, which is now handling Maharaj's case, says the review petition is "crucially important".
"Doctors are conducting tests and have thus far indicated that there is no reason for any alarm, " Maharaj said in a statement.
He said federal investigators were examining the two unexploded devices which were found on the busy Jangli Maharaj Road area, where the blasts occurred.
The statement read by presidential spokesman, Mac Maharaj, on Saturday said that Mr Mandela had been admitted to hospital "due to a recurrence of pneumonia".
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Known mostly for his accomplishment as a Kathak (Indian classical dance) performer, Birju Maharaj will render thumris composed by his grandfather, Bindadin Maharaj of the Lucknow Gharana.
Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said 94-year-old Mandela went in the afternoon for tests "to manage existing conditions in line with his age" at a hospital in Pretoria, the capital.
"One of the challenges we have in this world ... is that some communities are looked down as inferior and there's a major struggle to assert our culture, " Maharaj said.
As well as the witnesses placing him away from the crime scene, Maharaj's team say they know of the existence of other suspects with clear motives for carrying out the killings.
Editor Davan Maharaj said in comments in an accompanying article that the paper gave the military's request careful consideration, but determined that it had an obligation to publish some of the photos.
But for all the evidence suggesting a miscarriage of justice, Krishna Maharaj has been unable to win a re-trial, and last week the Supreme Court refused to take the case, exhausting his legal avenues.
Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj, a prisoner on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela in the 1960s and 70s, said on Saturday that Mr Mandela had been admitted to hospital "due to a recurrence of pneumonia".
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Mr Maharaj said there were still some South Africans who "sit with their dogs in front in a van or truck with a worker at the back in pouring rain or extremely cold weather".
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Some people also do not "hesitate to rush their dogs to veterinary surgeons for medical care when they are sick while they ignore workers or relatives who are also sick in the same households", Mr Maharaj said.
In a statement aimed at diffusing the row, Mr Maharaj said the president's remarks were aimed at ensuring that black people did not behave in a way that was detrimental to creating a "caring African society" in South Africa.
"The employment of members of (South Africa's military) to CAR is one of the efforts that South Africa is making to bring about peace and stability in the region, " said the South African statement, which was released through government spokesman Mac Maharaj.
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