{"id":8357,"date":"2012-02-27T02:37:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T00:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-1-south-africas-mandela-released-from-hospital\/"},"modified":"2012-02-27T02:37:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T00:37:56","slug":"update-1-south-africas-mandela-released-from-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-south-africas-mandela-released-from-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-South Africa&#8217;s Mandela released from hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mandela released from hospital<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Keyhole checks revealed nothing seriously wrong<\/p>\n<p> (Releads with Mandela discharged)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Cropley<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Feb 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Former South African<br \/>\nPresident Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital on Sunday<br \/>\nafter a keyhole abdominal examination showed there was nothing<br \/>\nseriously wrong with the 93-year-old anti-apartheid leader, the<br \/>\ngovernment said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The doctors have decided to send him home as the diagnostic<br \/>\nprocedure he underwent did not indicate anything seriously wrong<br \/>\nwith him,&#8221; President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>His departure from Pretoria&#8217;s &#8220;1 Military&#8221; hospital in a<br \/>\nmulti-vehicle motorcade marks the end of an anxious 24-hour wait<br \/>\nfor South Africa&#8217;s 50 million people, after Mandela was admitted<br \/>\non Saturday morning with &#8220;long-standing abdominal pain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The government insisted throughout there was nothing to<br \/>\npanic about.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said Mandela had had<br \/>\n&#8220;investigative laparoscopy&#8221; &#8211; a tiny camera inserted into the<br \/>\nabdomen &#8211; and denied reports he had undergone surgery for a<br \/>\nhernia.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t the surgery that has been out there in the media<br \/>\nat all,&#8221; Sisulu told a media briefing in Cape Town. &#8220;He&#8217;s fine.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s as fine as can be at his age &#8211; and handsome.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Mandela released from hospital * Keyhole checks revealed nothing seriously wrong (Releads with Mandela discharged) By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG, Feb 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Former South African President Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital on Sunday after a keyhole abdominal examination showed there was nothing seriously wrong with the 93-year-old anti-apartheid leader, the government said. 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