Mandela reportedly recovered from infection, surgery

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Slideshow: Nelson Mandela: A revolutionary's lifeView images of civil rights leader Nelson Mandela, who went from anti-apartheid activist to prisoner to South Africa's first black president.Launch slideshowBy ReutersJOHANNESBURG -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela  has recovered from a lung infection and surgery to remove gallstones that kept  him in the hospital for nearly three weeks, the government said Sunday.

Follow @NBCNewsWorld Mandela, 94, who has been in frail health for several years, spent most  of December in a Pretoria hospital -- his longest stay for medical care since his  release from prison in 1990. He has been receiving treatment at his Johannesburg  home after he left the hospital Dec. 26.

"President Mandela has made  steady progress and clinically he continues to improve," the Office of the  Presidency said in a statement.

Mandela had recovered from his surgical  procedure and the lung infection, it said, citing his medical team.

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