Mandela, 75, underwent a two-hour operation Wednesday, during which surgeon Percy Amoils removed a cataract from the left eye.
Amoils also redirected tear ducts which had virtually been destroyed by wind-blown grit when Mandela was breaking rocks in a limestone quarry at the Robben Island penal colony off Cape Town.
Mandela spent 17 of his 27 years in prison on Robben Island during the anti-apartheid struggle.
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