DHAKA: Nelson Mandela’s discharge from hospital after nearly three months of treatment shows he has made ‘progress’.

South Africa’s president has said, reports the BBC.

Jacob Zuma said South Africans were ‘very happy’ that the anti-apartheid hero, 95, had returned home on Sunday.

Mandela was admitted to a private hospital in the capital, Pretoria, in June for a recurring lung infection.

He is revered around the world for leading the fight against white minority rule in South Africa.

He became South Africa’s first black president in 1994.

Mandela spent 27 years in prison and preached reconciliation with South Africa’s white community after his release in 1990.

His home in Johannesburg’s Houghton suburb has been ‘reconfigured’ so that he continues to receives intensive care, the presidency has said.

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