Nelson Mandela, the former South African president who led the struggle against apartheid, spent his first night at his home after nearly three months in the hospital battling a lung infection.
Mandela, 95, was yesterday moved to his Johannesburg home, which has been adapted to provide him the care that he had been receiving at the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria. Mac Maharaj, the spokesman for President Jacob Zuma, declined to comment on his condition today and referred Bloomberg to a statement issued yesterday.
“Madiba’s condition remains critical and is at times unstable,” the South African presidency said in a statement on its website, referring to Mandela by his clan name. “If there are health conditions that warrant another admission to hospital in future, this will be done.”
Mandela had been hospitalized since June 8 with a recurring lung infection and doctors downgraded his condition to critical on June 23. Mandela, who was jailed from 1964 to 1990, served a single five-year term as president after his African National Congress swept to victory in the first multi-racial elections. He earned global praise for urging reconciliation, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
To contact the reporter on this story: Christopher Spillane in Johannesburg at [email protected]
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Mandela, 95, was yesterday moved to his Johannesburg home, which has been adapted to provide him the care that he had been receiving at the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria. Mac Maharaj, the spokesman for President Jacob Zuma, declined to comment on his condition today and referred Bloomberg to a statement issued yesterday.
“Madiba’s condition remains critical and is at times unstable,” the South African presidency said in a statement on its website, referring to Mandela by his clan name. “If there are health conditions that warrant another admission to hospital in future, this will be done.”
Mandela had been hospitalized since June 8 with a recurring lung infection and doctors downgraded his condition to critical on June 23. Mandela, who was jailed from 1964 to 1990, served a single five-year term as president after his African National Congress swept to victory in the first multi-racial elections. He earned global praise for urging reconciliation, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
To contact the reporter on this story: Christopher Spillane in Johannesburg at [email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Nasreen Seria at [email protected]