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South Africa's president says Nelson Mandela has been discharged from the hospital in the capital, Pretoria.
President Jacob Zuma said in a statement Sunday that former President Mandela remains in critical condition and was sent to his Johannesburg home early Sunday, where he would continue to get intensive care.

Mandela's condition sometimes is unstable, the statement said.

The anti-apartheid leader had been hospitalized since June 8 for what the government has described as a recurring lung infection.

"His home has been reconfigured to allow him to receive intensive care there," the statement said. "The health care personnel providing care at his home are the very same who provided care to him in hospital. If there are health conditions that warrant another admission to hospital in future, this will be done."

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South African political leader Nelson Mandela was born July 18, 1918, son of a counselor to the paramount chief of the Thembu people near Qunu in what is now the Eastern Cape. He is widely known in South Africa by his clan name, Madiba.

Caption: Portrait Mandela between 1945 and 1960, wearing the traditional outfit of the Thembu tribe.

South African leader Nelson Mandela remains in critical but stable condition in hospital, though "medical interventions" are required because his health sometimes becomes unstable, the South African government said Saturday.de

Doctors are working hard for a "turnaround" in the condition of 95-year-old Mandela, who was admitted to a hospital in June with what officials said was a recurring lung infection, the office of South African President Jacob Zuma said in a statement.

In the statement, Zuma's office quoted doctors as saying the anti-apartheid leader has "demonstrated great resilience" and that his condition has tended to stabilize after medical treatments when his health deteriorates.
"Doctors are still working hard to effect a turnaround and a further improvement in his health and to keep the former President comfortable," the statement said.

Mandela remains very fragile, and many details of his medical condition have not been divulged or are tightly controlled by his family and Zuma's office. Zuma urged South Africans to pray for Mandela and to keep him in their thoughts at all times.

Since June 8, when Mandela was taken to a Pretoria hospital to be treated for a recurring lung infection, there has been a groundswell of concern in South Africa and around the world for the man who spent 27 years as a prisoner under apartheid and then emerged to negotiate an end to white racist rule before becoming president in the country's first all-race elections in 1994.

Zuma's office said the president will travel to Malaysia Saturday on an official visit during which he will receive a peace award on behalf of Mandela.

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