Tweeting Mandela: Officials forthcoming after hiding leader's previous health scare
Nelson Mandela is recovering at home in Johannesburg after being discharged from hospital with a clean bill of health, but many still fear the worst for the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle.
The 93-year-old former president was released last Sunday after spending the night in hospital for a minor exploratory procedure to investigate persistent abdominal pain.
President Jacob Zuma's office said Mandela was resting with family at his home in the leafy suburb of Houghton.
"Following his discharge from hospital, former president Nelson Mandela has resumed his normal day-today life," a statement said.
"He is recuperating at home with the support of his family."
Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, whose ministry is in charge of Mandela's health care, said he had undergone: diagnostic laparoscopy, or "keyhole surgery," in which doctors make small incisions in the abdominal area to probe it with a tiny camera.
He was brought home surreptitiously, in what journalists gathered outside his house only realized in retrospect was probably an unmarked black vehicle with tinted windows.
Mandela is adored in South Africa for leading a racially divided country into democracy and is exalted internationally as a symbol of forgiveness and freedom.
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My first-ever bit of political awareness? As a kid in the mid-80s my dad gave me an anti-Apartheid t-shirt to wear...
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