The 94-year-old's recovery from the latest in a series of health scares, ending in a tense period during which his TV obituary was broadcast by mistake.
As Mandela was taken in a military ambulance to his home Houghton, an upmarket suburb of Johannesburg, his relatives and friends paid tribute to a "tough guy" whose will to live was undimmed.
Truly a tough guy.
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| Nelson Mandela |
