Mandela out of hospital

discomfort, raising alarms about the man revered as the symbol of South Africa’s post-apartheid reconciliation.
“The doctors have decided to send him home as the diagnostic procedure he underwent did not indicate anything seriously wrong with him,” President Jacob Zuma’s office said in a statement.
Presidency spokesman Harold Maloka said Mandela, 93, was recovering at home in the leafy Johannesburg suburb of Houghton, where he returned last month from his childhood village in the Eastern Cape, some 800 kilometres (500 miles) from the country’s economic hub.
“He is resting with family,” Maloka told AFP.
Mandela underwent a diagnostic laparoscopy, a procedure in which doctors make small incisions in the abdomen to probe it with a tiny camera.
Shortly before his discharge was announced, Zuma said Mandela, known affectionately as Madiba, was relaxed and comfortable after his night’s stay in hospital and was surrounded by his family.
“The doctors have assured us that there is nothing to worry about and that Madiba is in good health,” Zuma said.
Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, whose ministry is charged with Mandela’s health care, earlier said “there never was anything wrong with him” but that the investigative surgery was needed to get to the bottom of his discomfort.
“He’s fine, he is recovering from anaesthetic and he is as fine as can be at his age. He is fine and handsome,” Sisulu told reporters in Cape Town, refuting reports that Mandela had hernia surgery. — AFP.