A spokesman for President Jacob Zuma confirmed that Mr Mandela was transported to his home in Johannesburg’s Houghton neighbourhood, where he will continue to recover under the close watch of his personal doctors.
“He will undergo home-based high care at his Houghton home until he recovers fully,” Mac Maharaj, the presidential spokesman said. “We request a continuation of the privacy consideration in order to allow for the best possible conditions for full recovery.”
Mr Mandela, who is 94, was flown on December 8 from his rural residence in Qunu village to the capital Pretoria, where he spent 19 days in hospital receiving treatment for a recurring lung infection.
Doctors also discovered that he had developed gallstones and he had surgery to have them removed.
It was his longest hospital stay since coming out of prison in 1990 after 27 years in detention.
South Africa’s first black president spent Christmas Day in hospital, where he was visited by wife Graca Machel and members of the Mandela family, along with Mr Zuma, who said he was “looking much better” and “in good spirits”.
It is unclear when Mr Mandela might be allowed to return to his village home in Qunu, in the remote Eastern Cape province, where he spent his boyhood and built a house after being released from prison in 1990.
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