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Mandela now ‘much better’ as he recovers at home
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Global anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, who is recovering at home after spending nearly three months in hospital, is said to be doing “much better” and sitting up on his bed, his grandson was quoted as saying yesterday.
Mbuso Mandela told The New Age newspaper that the 95-year-old statesman was “sitting up and looking around” and had spent the Tuesday public holiday surrounded by family.
“I saw him again Wednesday at lunch, He is doing well,” he said, adding that “we are keeping him company.”
He stressed that Mandela was “much better” and not completely bed-ridden.
Mandela is receiving intensive care for a respiratory illness at his Johannesburg home where he returned after being discharged on September 1.
He had spent 86 days in a Pretoria hospital. His condition was described as critical but stable throughout his stay.
The frail statesman has faced several health scares in recent years amid lung problems that date back to his 27 years in jail.
He has been hospitalized several times since last December. His latest hospitalization was his longest.
The frail statesman is admired for his lifelong sacrifice in fighting the brutal apartheid regime installed in 1948.
In his address at the United Nations in New York, President Jacob Zuma said Mandela “continues to respond to treatment.”
Mandela became South Africa’s first black president in 1994, after leading talks that ended white minority rule and put the ruling African National Congress in power.
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