South Africa’s retired archbishop Desmond Tutu was on Wednesday discharged from hospital after spending three weeks receiving treatment for a “recurring infection”, his family said.
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Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says the 84-year-old Tutu was in “high spirits” and discussed subjects including education and politics.
“The archbishop was readmitted on Saturday as a precaution after his surgical wound had shown signs of infection”.
The 84-year-old Nobel Peace Prize victor, who has been living with prostate cancer for almost 20 years, was re-admitted to hospital to treat an infection following surgery this month.
Social media was flooded late on Monday with rumours of his death which resulted in a flurry of panicked telephone calls to his family from relatives and friends from around the world.
Tutu-Van Furth said that the therapies her father has received for the prostate cancer he has been living with for over 15 years have “retarded his healing”.
His daughter said he had been treated with antibiotics for the infection.
Yesterday, Mpho Tutu van Furth told the media her father had been responding well to treatment for a surgical infection.
“The hoax messages are very disturbing and incredibly unkind”.
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The South African National Editors’ Forum on Tuesday noted an “alarming trend by fake news websites to publish inaccurate information under the guise of news”.
