Mandela to receive intensive care at home

Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital yesterday while still in a critical condition and was taken by ambulance to his Johannesburg home where he will receive intensive care, the office of South Africa’s president said.

On a sunny but cold morning, an ambulance took the 95-year-old anti-apartheid leader home from the hospital in the capital, Pretoria, about 31 miles (50km) away.

Mandela had been hospitalised for nearly three months, after being admitted on Jun 8 for what the government described as a recurring lung infection.