‘Healthy’ Mandela leaves hospital

Nelson Mandela was discharged from a South African hospital after a minor diagnostic procedure showed nothing “seriously wrong” with the 93-year- old anti-apartheid icon.

His departure from hospital in a multi-vehicle motorcade marks the end of an anxious 24-hour wait for South Africa’s 50m people, after Mandela was admitted on Saturday morning.

Mandela was admitted for what president Jacob Zuma’s office called “a long-standing abdominal complaint”, putting the nation on edge over the former president’s health.