South Africa's Mandela 'doing very well' - daughter


  • World
  • Monday, 17 Jun 2013

Makaziwe Mandela (R), the eldest daughter of former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, smiles as she leaves a Pretoria hospital where her father is being treated June 15, 2013. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela, who is being treated in hospital for a lung infection, is "doing very well", his daughter said on Monday.

The 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader, who became South Africa's first black president in 1994, was rushed to hospital early on June 8 with a recurring respiratory infection.

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