Nairobi, 17 Dec (EFE).-former South African President Nelson Mandela, of 94 years, is improving after undergoing the past weekend an operation to extract a few gallstones, reported today the Government of South Africa.

“unless we disclose an update or new information, we should proceed knowing that it is improving the health of Madiba (his clan name in language xhosa with that is known popularly in South Africa)”, said the spokesman of the Presidency of the country, Marc Maharaj, quoted by the South African news agency Sapa.

this Sunday, the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, explained that “a competent medical team” is trying to Mandela, intervened last Saturday successfully for removal of calculi biliary.

Mandela was admitted to a hospital in Pretoria last December 8 for, according to the South African Government, “subject you to some analysis”.

< p> In the following days, the Executive issued brief statements in which was first revealing that he had had a relapse of a previous lung infection, which supposedly was recovering, until last Saturday reported that it had been necessary to operate the exmandatario to extract stones bile.

Mandela not spent so much time in a hospital since 2001, when, at age 83, remained seven weeks for a radiotherapy treatment after a prostate. cancer will be diagnosed

is the third time that the exgobernante is hospitalized in the last two years, although it is under permanent surveillance medical.

first black South Africa President Mandela, is revered in his country and in the rest of the world for their fight during 67 years against the regime of racial segregation of apartheid, imposed by the white minority South African until his election as Governor in 1994.

the am 18. Juli übergeben, der Exmandatario hielt seine 94 Geburtstage in Qunu, dort seine Kindheit verbrachte.

ehemaliger Präsident befindet sich gewöhnlich in Qunu, und nur nach Johannesburg Revisionen Médicas. unterziehen zurückgegeben hat

seinen letzte Auftritt in der Öffentlichkeit war bei der Fußball World Cup, Südafrika 2010 Schließung, die Spanien gewonnen. EFE