JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela spent a first night back home after being discharged from hospital on Sunday, but the South African government said the anti-apartheid hero remains critically ill and under intensive care.

The former president had been in a Pretoria hospital for almost three months, spending his 95th birthday there as he received intensive treatment for a respiratory illness.

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