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15 June 2013 - 11:35 AMT

Grandson says Mandela recovering ‘very well, looks good’

Former South African President and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a lung infection which has kept him in hospital for a week, his grandson said on Saturday, June 12, according to Reuters.

"Madiba is recovering very well and looks good," Mandla Mandela said in Qunu, a village in the Eastern Cape province where Mandela was born and spent his early years.

Speaking in Xhosa at a funeral in Qunu of another relative, Mandla used the clan name 'Madiba' by which 94-year-old Mandela is popularly known.