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The First Family Arrives in Capetown
President Obama speaking to the students and citizens at University of Cape Town. Watch it live here. We’ll post full video and photos when available.
The First Family Visits Robben Island
President Obama visits the Robben Island prison cell where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years of imprisonment.
From left, First Lady Michelle Obama, Sasha Obama, Ahmed Kathrada, former prisoner with Nelson Mandela guiding the tour, U.S. President Back Obama, Marian Robinson and Leslie Robinson, look out over the courtyard of the prison on Robben Island, South Africa, Sunday, June 30, 2013. Former South African president Nelson Mandela spent 18 years of his 27-year prison term on the island locked up by the former apartheid government. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
US President Barack Obama (R), and First Lady Michelle Obama (2L) listen to former prisoner Ahmed Kathrada with Michelle Obama’s mother Marian Robinson (L) as they tour the limestone quarry where prisoners worked on Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa on June 30, 2013. President Barack Obama was “deeply humbled” by a visit to the cell where Nelson Mandela spent years as a prisoner, in a solemn homage Sunday to the critically ill hero he was unable to see in Pretoria. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
U.S. President Barack Obama, second from left, and the first family tour a rock quarry where Robben Island prisoners once worked near Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday, June 30, 2013. Robben Island is an historic Apartheid-era prison that held black political prisoners including former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela. From left, tour guide Ahmed Kathrada, Obama, daughter Sasha, First Lady Michelle Obama, and daughter Malia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Barack Obama and his family listen to Robben Island prison guide Ahmed Kathrada, who was an inmate with Nelson Mandela
The University of Capetown
The President tours the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre with Archbishop Desmond Tutu:
Good bye South Africa
The First Family in Nelson Mandela’s Prison Cell
I looooooooovvvvvvee my First Family! YES I DO. I love my First Family and am proud of them too!
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A student raps for President Barack Obama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu as they visit with program participants at the Desmond Tutu HIV Center in Cape Town, South Africa
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US President Barack Obama looks out the window from the cell where Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist, was once jailed on Robben Island, on June 30, 2013. Paying homage to the 94-year-old former South-African president, who is critically ill in hospital, Obama stared into the stark cell where Mandela spent two thirds of his 27 years in jail.
—–AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSON
US President Barack Obama (L) embraces Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu following a tour of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 30, 2013. Obama was “deeply humbled” by a visit to the cell where Nelson Mandela spent years as a prisoner, in a solemn homage Sunday to the critically ill hero he was unable to see in Pretoria.
—AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB
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Student sings “At Last” to First Lady Michelle Obama
Awesome! Our FLOTUS is so loved. This young sista’s got a set of pipes on her. Wonderful…
zizi2 @zizii2
@DavidNakamura @WaPo did u ever hve a WORTHY hero when u were in college? #PBO’s reveres Pres #Mandela for his ability to luv those who hate
2:02 PM – 30 Jun 2013
Good job, Ametia!
AFRICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David Nakamura ✔ @DavidNakamura
Just finished my WaPo print story on Obama’s day chasing Mandela’s ghosts in S. Africa. In WH pool again Sun. when Potus tours Robben Island
zizi2 @zizii2
@DavidNakamura read this piece abt the real Africa today, not ur tarzanesque ignorance, to understand PBO’s trip. http://theobamadiary.com/2013/06/26/clueless-media-president-obamas-in-africa-cuz-it-has-top-10-fastest-growing-economies-in-the-world/ …
1:10 PM – 30 Jun 2013
Put the paddle to that ASS, Zizi! These stupid mofos are worthless POS. They do nothing but sully the narrative, instead of bringing any meaningful dialogue or educated facts to their story. Just LAZY STENOGRAPHERS.
David Nakamura ✔ @DavidNakamura
Just finished my WaPo print story on Obama’s day chasing Mandela’s ghosts in S. Africa. In WH pool again Sun. when Potus tours Robben Island
zizi2 @zizii2
@DavidNakamura Since u failed spectacularly in ur pre-trip screed to tarnish #PBO for making Africa trip, u now resort to manufactured turd
1:07 PM – 30 Jun 2013
David Nakamura ✔ @DavidNakamura
Just finished my WaPo print story on Obama’s day chasing Mandela’s ghosts in S. Africa. In WH pool again Sun. when Potus tours Robben Island
zizi2 @zizii2
@DavidNakamura Chasing ghosts? BS! You obviously don’t care shit abt economic growth promise of countries in Africa, the reason PBO is there
1:04 PM – 30 Jun 2013
The audio of the speech
http://youtu.be/362t_VoLw0M
Thank you for adding the photos too, Rikyrah!
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Pres. Obama announces a summit with African leaders to help launch a new chapter in U.S.- Africa relations. Summit will be next year.
11:53 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Power Africa Initiative that Pres. Obama talked about will begin with these 6 countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria & Tanzania
11:51 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Pres. Obama praises Nelson Mandela for his ability to use power for good and voluntarily give up power when the time was right. Crowd cheers
11:42 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
POTUS on Power Africa: “A new initiative that will double access to power in sub-saharan Africa.” Helps homes & schools into the 21st Cent.
11:40 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
POTUS: “I’m calling on America to up our game when it comes to Africa.” Talks about ways U.S. will engage in trade with Africa.
11:35 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Pres. Obama: “If the dignity of all people in Africa is upheld, then America will also be inspired by you.”
11:34 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Pres. Obama: “I’ve traveled to Africa because my bet is on the young people who are the heart of this continent. I’m betting on you.”
11:32 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Pres. Obama: “Progress has come to Africa but it’s not fast enough for the woman who is raped in Eastern Congo.” Students nod their heads.
11:30 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
POTUS: “It would have been seen as impossible that less than 50 years later, an African American would address this crowd as President.”
11:24 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Pres. Obama says he wasn’t interested in politics or activism until Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko and the Movement for Divestment.
11:26 AM – 30 Jun 2013
RIK,
Check your email.
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
POTUS mentions that while RFK addressed SA in 1966, James Meredith was shot in America while inspiring black people to register to vote.
11:23 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Pres. Obama quotes from Bobbie Kennedy’s “Ripples of Hope” speech given in 1966. #SouthAfrica #CapetownUniversity
11:21 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
POTUS on anti-apartheid movement: “I knew that I could be part of something bigger than myself. That my own salvation was bound with others”
11:20 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Pres. Obama says Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement shook him out of his cynicism as a 19 year old college student.
11:20 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Pres. Obama says the anti-apartheid movement woke up his passion for activism. It was a positive outlet for his anger and helplessness.
11:19 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
POTUS on attending CA college: “I was not always focused on my studies. There were a lot of distractions and I enjoyed those distractions.”
11:17 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Pres. Obama: “Mandela’s spirit could never be imprisoned because his legacy is here for all to see.”
11:15 AM – 30 Jun 2013
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Pres. Obama gets on stage to huge cheers. Addresses the crowd in their native tongue and gets thumbs up from the students. #SouthAfrica
11:13 AM – 30 Jun 2013
OBAMA IS AN AFRICAN! LOL I love it, knowing the whiners and American fools are hating it that PBO’s in the Motherland.
PBO: ‘People learn to HATE, and if they love to hate, they can learn to LOVE.”
AMEN!
PBO was TRUTH-TELLING all over that continent.
True dat!
RIK, check your email again. I fix it.
PBO: Elections, free and fair in Zimbabwe. These are things that America stands for, not perfectly, but this is what my adminstration stands for.