US President Barack Obama arrives in South Africa

Описание: (28 Jun 2013)
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Pan of Air Force One plane, carrying US President Barack Obama, landing at Waterkloof Air Force Base, Pretoria
2. Pull out of plane taxiing along runway
3. Zoom in to Obama descending stairs with wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha be met by South African Minister for International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane
4. Pan of Barack and Michelle Obama walking across runway with Nkoana-Mashabane
5. Mid of Obamas getting in to helicopter
STORYLINE
US President, Barack Obama landed at Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria on Friday, where he will begin the South African leg of his first major tour of Africa.
Arriving with his wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha, he was greeted by South African Minister for International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.
Obama's visit to South Africa is seen as something of a tribute to the man who helped inspire his own political activism, Nelson Mandela.
The President will pay homage to Mandela at Robben Island, the prison where he spent 18 of his 27 years in prison.
And with South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, facing questions about its effectiveness, Obama will urge the government and the South African people to live up to the democratic example set by their first black President.
Inspired by Nelson Mandela's struggles in South Africa, a young Barack Obama joined campus protests in the US against the racist rule that kept Mandela locked away in prison for nearly three decades.
Now an historic, barrier-breaking figure himself, President Obama arrived in South Africa on Friday to find a country drastically transformed by Mandela's influence - and grappling with the beloved 94-year-old's mortality.
It was unclear whether Mandela's deteriorating health would allow Obama to make a hospital visit.
The former South African leader is battling a recurring lung infection and is reported to be in critical condition at a hospital in the South African capital of Pretoria.
Obama and Mandela have met just once, a hastily arranged meeting in a Washington hotel room in 2005 when Obama was a US senator.

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