NCTexan Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 AFP: Michelle Obama visits S.Africa with family PRETORIA — Michelle Obama began what officials have billed as her first major overseas trip as US first lady Monday, a visit to South Africa and Botswana focused on young women leaders and the legacy of the anti-apartheid struggle. She is travelling with her daughters, Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson -- but without her husband, US President Barack Obama. She left Washington on Monday morning and was due at Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria late Monday. Obama is scheduled to meet South African President Jacob Zuma's wife Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma in Pretoria on Tuesday morning before heading to Johannesburg for a visit to the Nelson Mandela Foundation, where she will get a tour from the former president's wife, Graca Machel. On Tuesday afternoon, Obama will visit a daycare centre in Johannesburg and tour the Apartheid Museum, which chronicles the history of the struggle against white-minority rule. The six-day trip will also take the first lady to Cape Town and the Botswanan capital, Gaborone. Obama has a packed schedule that includes a safari in Botswana, a visit with Nobel Peace Prize-winner Desmond Tutu in Cape Town and a trip to the memorial for Hector Pieterson -- a 12-year-old student killed during the anti-apartheid Soweto uprising in 1976. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 "PRETORIA — Michelle Obama began what officials have billed as her first major overseas trip as US first lady Monday, a visit to South Africa and Botswana focused on young women leaders and the legacy of the anti-apartheid struggle." As distinguished from the outrageously expensive vacations that Meeeee-chelle took to India, to Spain, and wherever else? This trip is the same - just watch the man behind the curtain. It is a vacation. And on anti-apartheid, let's not forget what is happening to white farmers in South Africa. Over 3,000 were butchered as of 1994. Will Meee chelle Obama address the ANC because of those murders? Didn't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 I'd like to hear some outrage from Meee-chelle on these young women here instead of her racially tinged obsession and hatred for things Western: Police: Pakistani girl forced to wear suicide vest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickadee Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Makes my blood boil . . . so will not comment further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTexan Posted June 20, 2011 Author Share Posted June 20, 2011 Will Meee chelle Obama address the ANC because of those murders? I think that Michelle will probably leave that to Momma... We're sending Marian on vacation as well and I'm sure that she'll "be all over them like a cheap suit". Or maybe not... looks like Momma has some pretty expensive duds (certainly no cheap suits) and a professional "do". I'm sure there's no government money involved there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Interesting face, NCTexan. Same scowl as Meee-first- chelle. As in something doesn't smell right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Makes my blood boil . . . so will not comment further. Yup, ditto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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