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hospital stay, officials said.
The revered 94-year-old had been admitted to a Pretoria hospital on December 8, undergoing treatment for a lung infection and gallstones in the latest health scare for South Africa’s first black president.
Though he was discharged on Wednesday, doctors now want him to stay in Johannesburg, near the country’s top medical facilities, said a presidential spokesman.
It was unclear if and when Mandela would return to his ancestral home in Qunu in the Eastern Cape.
“Doctors yesterday came to the conclusion that he made sufficient progress to be discharged,” presidential spokesman and former Mandela prison mate Mac Maharaj told local television channel eNCA.
Mandela is now receiving “home-based care” at his residence in the posh Johannesburg suburb of Houghton.
“When Madiba goes, in which period, is a matter that is entirely depending on his own wishes. Whatever he wishes we will do,” said Maharaj.
Mandela had spent Christmas in a Pretoria facility, part of his longest hospital stay since coming out of prison in 1990.
Meanwhile, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has delegated to his vice president some administrative and economic power during his absence to recover from a recent cancer surgery.
Under a decree published by the Official Gazette on Wednesday, Vice President Nicolas Maduro was empowered to make decisions relating to the budget, expropriations and government debt. — AFP.
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