Slideshow: Nelson Mandela: A revolutionary's life (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/31965573/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=31965573&wbSection=news)(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/_archive/News/_International%20News/Africa/ss-090717-Nelson-Mandela-NEW/ss-120601-mandela-tease.photoblog600.jpg) (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/31965573/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=31965573&wbSection=news)Odd Andersen / AFP - Getty Images View images of civil rights leader Nelson Mandela, who went from anti-apartheid activist to prisoner to South Africa's first black president.Launch slideshowBy NBC News staff and wire servicesJOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela was released from a hospital in Pretoria on Wednesday evening, a government spokesman told NBC News.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (https://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) Mandela, 94, had been admitted more than two weeks ago for what were described as routine tests but then was treated for a recurring lung infection and then underwent surgery to remove gallstones.
Mac Maharaj, a spokesman for President Jacob Zuma, told NBC News that doctors were satisfied with Mandela's progess and that the anti-apartheid hero will receive "high care" at his Johannesburg home.
Zuma had visited Mandela on Christmas Day and had said he was "in good spirits."
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