{"id":31961,"date":"2013-06-29T19:11:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T19:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31961"},"modified":"2013-06-29T19:11:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T19:11:04","slug":"obama-hails-mandela-inspiration-in-south-africa-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31961","title":{"rendered":"Obama hails Mandela ‘inspiration’ in South Africa visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama hails Mandela ‘inspiration’ in South Africa visit<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

BBC News<\/a>
\n2013-06-29<\/p>\n

US President Barack Obama<\/a> has praised Nelson Mandela<\/a> as “an inspiration to the world” while visiting South Africa.<\/p>\n

The US leader, who was speaking in Pretoria after talks with President Jacob Zuma<\/a>, does not intend to visit the 94-year-old, who has been critically ill for nearly a week.<\/p>\n

But he met the Mandela family in private and spoke by telephone to his wife, Gra\u00e7a Machel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Riot police clashed with anti-Obama protesters in Soweto.<\/p>\n

The American leader was in Soweto to deliver a speech to young African leaders at the University of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

According to Mr Zuma, Mr Mandela remains “stable but critical”, and he added that he had “every hope that he will be out of hospital soon”.<\/p>\n

However, South Africa’s last apartheid president and the man jointly awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Mr Mandela, FW de Klerk<\/a>, is to cut short a visit to Europe due to Mr Mandela’s poor health, his foundation said in a statement…<\/p>\n

…Mrs Machel, who remains by Mr Mandela’s side in the hospital in Pretoria, said after their phone call that she had conveyed their “messages of strength and inspiration” to her husband.<\/p>\n

Mr Zuma said that as the first black leaders of their respective countries, Mr Obama and Mr Mandela were “bound by history” and so “carry the dreams of millions of people in Africa and in the diaspora who were previously oppressed”…<\/p>\n

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