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Nelson Mandela, former South African president, may have had an illegitimate daughter after a brief relationship with a woman whom he met in Cape Town, 1945. Nelson Mandela Foundation has admitted it sebagaman reported by the Telegraph, Friday (6 / 8).

Mpho Pule struggled for nearly 12 years after seeing the man she believed to be her father but she just died a month before Mr Mandela's office sent a letter stating that they are already close to ensure the woman claims. Now Mpho Pule children continue their struggle for him to be recognized as the seventh child of apartheid-era freedom fighters that.

Verne Harris, spokesperson for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, said the claim Mrs Pule match documentation record of Mandela's life, but stressed that only DNA test that will provide absolute confirmation. "This is pointnya how we handle family issues," he said.

While allegations that former South African president, now 92 years old, is an unfaithful spouse during marriage is not something new, and so far no claims about the status of fathers who have been confirmed.

Mrs Pule, an honor bakery worker and mother of six children in a small town near the city of the Free State in Bloemfontein. Reported that he knew who his father from his grandmother in 1998. The grandmother told him that Nelson Mandela had a brief relationship with her mother, Jane Seipati Monakali, in Cape Town in 1945 which at that time had been married to his first wife, Evelyn, and already have a boy. Monakali died in 1992 without revealing his secret.

Mrs Pule reported to have repeatedly contacted Mr Mandela's foundation in hopes of meeting his father. Phone and letter was never answered until last October, when the foundation is to write a letter saying that the foundation has been "verified" information that he had sent to them and ask her to contact them.

Unfortunately, Pule has died of a stroke a month before the letter arrived. His family is now waiting to hear from Mandela's daughter, Zindzi, who is said to handle such claims.