CAPE TOWN - Nelson Mandela, who was hospitalized this weekend for abdominal pain, underwent laparoscopy and is doing "fine," South Africa's Defense Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said Sunday.

"He had investigative laparoscopy," a procedure in which the abdominal area is probed by tiny cameras inserted through small incisions, Sisulu told a press conference. "He's fine and he is recovering from anesthetic and he is as fine as can be at his age. He is fine and handsome."