Ailing Former South African President Nelson Mandela has "made progress during the past 24 hours", according to his doctors.
The 94-year-old is continuing to recover from the lung infection that has kept him in hospital for five days, the government has said.
"Doctors attending to former President Mandela have reported that he has made progress during the past 24 hours and they are satisfied with the way he is responding to treatment," President Jacob Zuma's office said a statement.
Mr Mandela was admitted to the 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria on Saturday for tests, but it was several days before authorities revealed he was ill.
His illness has been causing growing concern in South Africa, a nation of 50 million people that reveres Mr Mandela as the nation's first democratically-elected president after the apartheid era.
In January 2011, he 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 South African military take charge of his care and the government control information about his health.
Mr Mandela has a history of lung problems. He fell ill with tuberculosis in 1988 toward the tail-end of his prison years.
While doctors said it caused no permanent damage to his lungs, experts say TB can cause problems years later for those infected.
Mr Mandela was a leader in the struggle against apartheid and when he emerged from 27 years in prison in 1990 he won worldwide acclaim for urging reconciliation.
He won South Africa's first truly democratic elections in 1994, serving one five-year term as president before later retiring from public life to live in his home village of Qunu, in the Eastern Cape.
Mr Mandela made his last public appearance when his country hosted the 2010 World Cup football tournament.
He disengaged himself from South Africa's politics over the last decade but continued campaigning against AIDS. He has grown increasing frail in recent years.
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