South African ex-president de Klerk discharged after lung ailment


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  • Monday, 29 Oct 2018

FILE PHOTO: Former South African President FW de Klerk addresses a news conference in Cape Town, July 26, 2007. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner FW de Klerk was discharged from a three-night hospital stay after recovering from a lung ailment, his foundation said on Monday.

De Klerk, 82, was hospitalised over the weekend for treatment of pneumothorax, "an abnormal collection of air in the pleural space between the lung and the chest wall".

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