Mandela Released From Hospital - NYTimes.com JOHANNESBURG - Former President Nelson Mandela was discharged from the hospital on Sunday after an overnight stay and a diagnostic procedure, Jacob Zuma, South Africa's current president, announced. "The doctors have decided to send him home as the diagnostic procedure he underwent did not indicate anything seriously wrong with him," Mr. Zuma said in a statement. Mr. Mandela, 93, had entered the hospital on Saturday with what Mr. Zuma's office described as "a long-standing abdominal complaint" requiring the attention of a specialist. Mr. Mandela, who led the African National Congress from an underground opposition in a nation ruled by a white minority to the governing party of a multiracial nation, retired from public life eight years ago has been in virtual seclusion for the past two years; he is said by close associates to be frail.