Former South African president Nelson Mandela, who is 94 and has been in hospital since Saturday for tests, has suffered a recurrence of a lung infection but is responding to treatment, the government said.
The anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace laureate was spending his fourth day in a hospital in the South African capital Pretoria yesterday.
He remains a hero to many of South Africa's 52 million people and two brief stretches in hospital in the past two years made front-page news.
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