Mandela not receiving visitors for World Cup
June 10, 2010 10:36 pm
In a statement today, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said it
had been “inundated with requests for meetings, and it will be impossible for
Mr. Mandela to accede to even a small fraction of these.”
“Mr Mandela’s diary will remain closed for the duration of the World Cup,” the foundation said, while adding the former president “remains in good health.”
Mandela, who turns 92 on July 18, has largely retired from public life although there has been speculation he would make an appearance at the World Cup opening ceremony tomorrow.
He was not included in a list of dignatories and important figures who had confirmed their attendance at the ceremony and opening game, though his former wife Winnie Mandela was included.
