SOUTH Africa's former President Nelson Mandela is suffering from a recurring lung infection and is responding to treatments, the nation's presidency says.
The ailing Mandela, 94, has been in 1 Military Hospital near South Africa's capital, Pretoria, since Saturday, receiving medical tests.
The announcement on Tuesday ended speculation about what was troubling the anti-apartheid icon.
Government officials had declined repeatedly to say what caused the nation's military, responsible for Mandela's care, to hospitalise him over the last few days.
That caused growing concern in a nation of 50 million people that largely reveres Mandela for being its first democratically elected president who sought to bring the country together after centuries of racial division.
The tests Mandela underwent at the hospital detected the lung infection, said presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj in a statement.
"Madiba is receiving appropriate treatment and he is responding to the treatment," Maharaj said, referring to Mandela by his clan name as many do in South Africa in a sign of affection.
In January 2011, Mandela was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection.
The chaos that followed saw the military take charge of his care and the government control the information about his health.
In recent days many in the press and public have complained about the lack of concrete details on his condition.
Mandela has had a series of health problems in his life.
He contracted tuberculosis during his years in prison and had surgery for an enlarged prostate gland in 1985.
In 2001, he underwent seven weeks of radiation therapy for prostate cancer, ultimately beating the disease.
In February, Mandela spent a night in a hospital for a minor diagnostic surgery to determine the cause of an abdominal complaint.
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