Members of the Toronto Children's Chorus choral group from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, who are on a tour taking part in the Ihlombe South African Choral Festival, hug each other as they observe some of the get-well messages and flowers, after singing outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Saturday, July 13, 2013. Nelson Mandela is responding to treatment and the 94-year-old's condition remains critical but stable after more than a month in the hospital, South Africa's president said on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Members of the Toronto Children's Chorus choral group from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, who are on a tour taking part in the Ihlombe South African Choral Festival, hug each other as they observe some of the get-well messages and flowers, after singing outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Saturday, July 13, 2013. Nelson Mandela is responding to treatment and the 94-year-old's condition remains critical but stable after more than a month in the hospital, South Africa's president said on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Volunteers from Cupcakes 4 Kids with Cancer, place cakes to form a giant portrait of former president Nelson Mandela at a shopping mall in Johannesburg, Saturday July 13, 2013, in celebration of Mandela's birthday next week. Some 5,226 cakes, iced in green and pink. were used to complete the image. Mandela remains in critical but stable condition and is responding well to treatment a statement from the presidency has said in it's latest update. A call has been made for persons to celebrate Mandela's birthday by devoting time to a worthy causes. The cakes was sold after completion to raise funds for child cancer sufferers. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
A worshipper prays to God at sunset asking that he will be accepted into heaven, on a hilltop overlooking Johannesburg, South Africa Saturday, July 13, 2013. Nelson Mandela's wife, Graca Machel, said Friday that she is less anxious because the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader and former South African president is responding to treatment. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Worshippers pray to God at sunset on a hilltop overlooking Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday, July 13, 2013. Nelson Mandela's wife, Graca Machel, said Friday that she is less anxious because the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader and former South African president is responding to treatment. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Nelson Mandela may be discharged from hospital soon to recuperate at home, said a former president of South Africa.
The prediction about Mandela leaving the hospital was made by Thabo Mbeki as he gave a memorial lecture for the African National Congress Saturday, reported the South African radio news service Eyewitness News.
Mandela has been hospitalized for more than five weeks for a recurring lung infection, sparking an outpouring of support in South Africa and internationally. Friends who have visited him say he is on life support in the form of mechanical ventilation.
The most recent official update on his health said Mandela was in critical but stable condition. But both Mandela's wife, Graca Machel, and President Jacob Zuma have said recently that Mandela is responding to treatment.
The anti-apartheid hero spent 27 years in prison before becoming South Africa's first black president in 1994. He turns 95 on Thursday.
Mbeki was Mandela's key deputy and succeeded him as South Africa's president in 1999.
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