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2003 - NELSON MANDELA (Former President of South Africa, Former President of the African National Congress)
Members of the African National Congress had trouble obtaining visas to the United States as private citizens, because of convictions against them for anti-apartheid activities. Tokyo Sexwale was refused a visa in 2002. Virginia Farris of the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria said, "To make an exception for those who struggled against apartheid would require congress to change the law, and that would be a very lengthy process." In 2003, the US government informed Mandela, Sexwale, and Mufamadi that they would be removed from its list of undesirable aliens for a period of ten years. |
