Mandela shows 'sustained improvement'

July 22, 2013 18:01

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is showing "sustained improvement", the presidency said today, six weeks after the anti-apartheid hero was hospitalised with a life-threatening lung infection.

"Former President Mandela is still in a critical condition in hospital but shows sustained improvement," President Jacob Zuma said in a statement. Mandela, who turned 95 on July 18, was admitted to a Pretoria hospital on June 8. He has been hospitalised four times since December.

Mandela, South Africa's first black president, is regarded the founding father of the country's multi-racial democracy. Mandela had a long history of lung problems, dating back to the time when he was a political prisoner on Robben Island during apartheid. While in jail he contracted tuberculosis.

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