A grandson of former South African president Nelson Mandela appeared in court on Monday on charges of raping a 15-year-old female in Johannesburg, the country’s police service said.
Mbuso Mandela, 24, “was read his charges in court and now he will be given an opportunity for a formal bail hearing on Friday,” Mashadi Selepe, a spokesman for the police, said by phone Tuesday.
Nelson Mandela, who became South Africa’s first democratic president in 1994, was jailed for 27 years for fighting against white minority rule under apartheid. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for promoting reconciliation between blacks and whites in South Africa and became the nation’s first black president a year later. He died on Dec. 5, 2013, at the age of 95.
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