Hillary Clinton visited Mandela in his birthplace

As part of an official visit to Africa Secretary of State visited the former U.S. president, with whom he had a private lunch. Hero of the struggle against apartheid, and weakened his health at age 94 , Mandela receives very few visitors in his birthplace in Qunu, but dodged the request made ​​by Hillary. Mandela did not speak to reporters but smiled when she posed in her house to be photographed with Clinton and his wife, Graca Machel, widow of former Mozambican president Samora Machel, died in 1986, who was the architect of the independence of Mozambique. "That is a beautiful smile!" Said Clinton. 

"Madiba's smile is his trademark," Machel said, using the clan name of the first black president of South Africa that the country's inhabitants used affectionately. Mandela "is a close friend of the secretary , who learned much from him, "said a member of the American delegation. Clinton had met with Mandela last exactly three years ago in Johannesburg, when he had stressed his "lifetime of achievements, not only for him personally, but for South Africa and the world ." The latest public figure who had met Mandela was the husband of Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Bill Clinton, who visited Mandela's house last July 17 , the eve of the birthday of South African exmandatario. Hillary Clinton will stay until Thursday in Johannesburg and Cape Town today to meet with South African leaders as part of a strategic dialogue between America and South Africa, according to the Department of State. The U.S. is the second largest trading partner of South Africa, after China, and foreign direct investor third behind Great Britain and Holland.