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People waiting to collect their pensions Friday near former South African leader Nelson Mandela's village of Qunu learn from the radio about his leaving the hospital. Doctors said Mandela's respiratory infection was acute but that he was being sent home.
People waiting to collect their pensions Friday near former South African leader Nelson Mandela’s village of Qunu learn from the radio about his leaving the hospital. Doctors said Mandela’s respiratory infection was acute but that he was being sent home.
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JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela is doing well, a spokesman for South Africa’s deputy president said Saturday, a day after the former president was discharged from a hospital.

Doctors woke Mandela from a nap when Kgalema Motlanthe arrived at the house to visit him Saturday, said Motlanthe’s spokesman, Thabo Masebe. From bed, Mandela, 92, told Motlanthe he was happy to return home.

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