BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa — Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s ailing former president, had surgery to have gallstones removed on Saturday as he began his second week of hospitalization, the government said.
Mr. Mandela, an icon of the struggle against apartheid, was South Africa’s first black president, elected in 1994 after being released from prison, where he spent 27 years for his efforts to end white rule.
Mr. Mandela is now 94 and frail; this is the second time he has been hospitalized this year. Officials said that Mr. Mandela was flown to Pretoria on Dec. 8 to be treated for a lung infection.
“Tests revealed that there was a recurrence of the lung infection and that Madiba had developed gallstones,” the government said in a statement released Saturday, referring to Mr. Mandela by his clan name. “The medical team decided to attend to a lung infection before determining when to attend to the gallstones.”
An endoscopic surgery to remove the gallstones was successful, the statement said.
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