Obama praises Mandela 'inspiration'
US President Barack Obama says Nelson Mandela's "moral courage" is an inspiration to the world, during talks in South Africa with President Jacob Zuma.
South African President Jacob Zuma and his wife, posses for a picture with President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama at South Africa presidential palace .
US President Barack Obama says Nelson Mandela's "moral courage" is an inspiration to the world, during talks in South Africa with President Jacob Zuma.
Anti-American demonstrators danced and sang before marching through the streets of Pretoria, South Africa, to protest the official visit of President Obama Friday. Organized by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, about 800 people marched through Pretoria to voice their opposition to Obama and U.S. policy in South Africa and around the world.
Mandela family members the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria. Picture: Phill Magakoe.
Children outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital where Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters.
People carry 95 balloons, to mark Nelson Mandela's upcoming 95th birthday, as they march and sing outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
Members of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League wave a Mandela banner as they drive past Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa. Nelson Mandela's health improved overnight but his condition remains critical the South African government said today. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP.
Onica Nyembezi Mothoa, who claims to be the love child of Nelson Mandela, at her home in Soshanguve, outside Pretoria, after she was blocked from visiting her ailing father at Mediclinic Heart Hospital. Picture: Boxer Ngwenya
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Onica Nyembezi Mothoa, the woman who claims to be Nelson Mandela’s love child, travelled to the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria on Thursday, but was turned away at the gate.
Mothoa was born in Atteridgeville in 1947 to Sophie Majeni. She claims Majeni met Madiba while she was working as a domestic worker in Pretoria.
The 65-year-old woman, from Soshanguve North, has tried to meet the icon before. She has been trying for several years, including making trips to Qunu, Eastern Cape, to meet him.
The Star reported in 2011 that Majeni’s parents had forced her to go into hiding after realising she had a child by Mandela.
Her mother’s family were allegedly paralysed by fear at the thought of being associated with Mandela, who had become a thorn in the side of the apartheid regime.
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