1904 Olympic marathon participants Len Tau (left) and Jan Mashiani of South Africa. Missouri History Museum
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After nearly three months in the hospital, Nelson Mandela went home in an ambulance Sunday. According to South African PresidentJacob Zuma, Mandela is still in critical condition and will receive intensive care at home from the same team of doctors who treated him during his hospital stay. Former President Nelson Mandela has this morning, 1 September 2013, been discharged from the Pretoria hospital where he has been receiving treatment. We would like to wish him all the best as he continues his recovery at his Johannesburg home. Madiba’s condition remains critical and is at times unstable. Nevertheless, his team of doctors are convinced that he will receive the same level of intensive care at his Houghton home that he received in Pretoria. His home has been reconfigured to allow him to receive intensive care there. The health care personnel providing care at his home are the very same who provided care to him in hospital. If there are health conditions that w ...
Editor's note: Robyn Curnow, CNN's Johannesburg correspondent, had an exclusive interview with Nelson Mandela's daughter Makaziwe, who was born in 1953 to Mandela's...
