{NELSON Mandela is “fine” after his critical lung illness earlier this year, according to fellow ex-political prisoner Tokyo Sexwale. } <\/p>\n
“So all of you are wondering where is he. Madiba says of his state of health ‘I am not ill, I am just old’,” Sexwale said using Mandela’s clan name.<\/p>\n
“So, he is fine, he is out of hospital, he is back at home, that much is known. But his spirit is with us.”<\/p>\n
Mandela, 95, has been receiving intensive care for a respiratory illness at his Johannesburg home since September 1 after spending 86 days in a Pretoria hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
Sexwale, a former government minister who like Mandela had been imprisoned by the white-minority apartheid regime, was speaking ahead of the premiere of Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, which is to hit South African cinemas on November 28.<\/p>\n
The movie, largely based on Mandela’s autobiography of the same name traces the life of the anti-apartheid icon from his childhood in the rural Eastern Cape to his election as the country’s first black president in 1994.<\/p>\n
“It was very emotional to watch it,” Mandela’s 53-year-old daughter Zindzi said of the movie, refusing to comment on her father’s health.<\/p>\n
Mandela spent 27 years in jail for activism against the racist regime, and left his jail cell preaching equality and forgiveness, winning him worldwide admiration as a peace icon.<\/p>\n
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