South Africa's President Jacob Zuma is expected to be discharged from hospital a day after being admitted for tests following a bout of exhaustion.
"Our information was he was going to be out yesterday late or today," Gwede Mantashe, general secretary of the ruling ANC, told reporters on Sunday.
"So we are expecting him out today."
He said party officials had asked Zuma on Friday to take a break because "the punishing election program was taking its toll, not on him only but on many of us".
"Taking the advantage of having been given that time off, the president went for a routine health check in hospital yesterday," Mantashe said.
Zuma's office said doctors were "satisfied" with the 72-year-old leader's condition.
Mantashe said he had no details of the tests Zuma took but a local Sunday paper, City Press, cited an ANC party official saying Zuma had complained on Friday of "pain in the neck".
The presidency on Friday said Zuma would take "a few days off from public engagements".
"We are expecting him to rest more," Mantashe said.
Zuma's next scheduled public appearance is on June 19 to deliver the state of the nation address in parliament.
He was sworn in for a fresh term two weeks ago after his African National Congress party won the May 7 elections with an overwhelming 62 per cent of the vote.
AFP
source: newshub archive
