Mandela may have fathered illegitimate child
AGENCIES
JOHANNESBURG, AUG 7
Former South African President Nelson Mandela may have fathered an illegitimate daughter following an affair in 1945, his foundation has said.
Mpho Pule’s claim matched the documentary record of Mandela’s life, Verne Harris, a spokesman for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, said. But, Harris stressed that only a DNA test would provide absolute confirmation.
“This is the point at which we hand the matter over to the family”, the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying on Friday.
Pule, who died last year, is said to have found out who her father was from her grandmother in 1998.
Now her children are continuing her fight to be recognised as the seventh child fathered by the former apartheid-era freedom fighter, the daily said.
