Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital

Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital after being admitted for nine days at the Pretoria hospital suffering from pneumonia. Mandela was driven from the police in an ambulance and was taken to his home in Houghton in Johannesburg.

This is the third time since December of last year that he has suffered from gallstones and a lung infection. However due to his old age he has become very vulnerable to pneumonia, symptoms of which can include fever, chills, a cough, chest pain and shortness of breath.

'Madiba [Mr Mandela's clan name] is fine, Madiba is getting better and better,' the priGraca Mvate eNCA news channel quoted Graca Machel saying.