FILE- Former South African President Nelson Mandela as he celebrates his 94th birthday in Qunu, South Africa, in this file photo dated Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Mandela is still being treated in hospital for a recurring lung infection, Saturday Aug. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, FILE)
August 31, 2013 - 12:28 AM
JOHANNESBURG - The office of South Africa's president says Nelson Mandela remains hospitalized in a critical but stable condition.
The statement from the office of President Jacob Zuma followed reports that Mandela had been released from the hospital. The update on the 95-year-old anti-apartheid hero's condition is unchanged from last week, when Zuma said Mandela showed "great resilience" although at times he was unstable.
Mandela was admitted to a Pretoria hospital on June 8 with what officials said was a recurring lung infection.
Mandela spent 27 years as a prisoner under apartheid and then emerged to negotiate an end to white minority rule before becoming president in the country's first all-race elections in 1994.
News from © The Associated Press, 2013