President Jacob Zuma, Mandela family members and his close friends have reported since last week his condition has improved.
Maharaj told AFP on Friday that Zuma’s office “had not been party” to the court material and would not speculate on its content.
Earlier Goldberg said Mandela was “clearly a very ill man, but he was conscious and he tried to move his mouth and eyes when I talked to him”.
Mandela spent 27 years in prison for fighting white-minority rule and went on to lead the process of racial reconciliation as South Africa’s first black president.
Meanwhile an acerbic feud between his relatives showed little sign of abating.
Lawyers for his grandson Mandla were to lodge a formal complaint against his relatives’ legal team who they claim gave a false version of Mandela’s health.
“They relied on certain affidavits in particular with regards to the health of the (former) president which wasn’t true,” Mandla’s lawyer Gary Jansen told Sapa news agency.
Mandela’s three deceased children were buried at his proposed burial ground in Qunu, his childhood village, on Thursday.
Fifteen family members had won a court order against Mandla after he moved the graves two year ago without their consent.
But the fall-out from the dispute continued to reverberate.
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