MICHELLE Obama touched down in Pretoria last night in what officials have billed as her first major solo overseas trip as US first lady, to South Africa and Botswana.
She arrived at Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria at 9.15 pm.
Obama is accompanied by her daughters, Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson - but not her husband, US president Barack Obama.
She is scheduled to meet Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma, one of President Jacob Zuma's wives, in Pretoria this morning before heading for the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, where she will get a tour from the former president's wife, Graca Machel.
Tomorrow afternoon, Obama will visit a daycare centre in Johannesburg and tour the Apartheid Museum.
The six-day trip will also take the first lady to Cape Town and the Botswana capital Gaborone.
Obama has a packed schedule that includes a safari in Botswana, a meeting with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu in Cape Town as well as a trip to the Hector Pieterson memorial.
She will also give the keynote address at a conference of the Young African Women Leaders Forum, a two-day meeting of 75 women aged 16 to 30 who play leadership roles across the continent.
Michelle Obama lands on African soil
MICHELLE Obama touched down in Pretoria last night in what officials have billed as her first major solo overseas trip as US first lady, to South Africa and Botswana.
She arrived at Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria at 9.15 pm.
Obama is accompanied by her daughters, Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson - but not her husband, US president Barack Obama.
She is scheduled to meet Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma, one of President Jacob Zuma's wives, in Pretoria this morning before heading for the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, where she will get a tour from the former president's wife, Graca Machel.
Tomorrow afternoon, Obama will visit a daycare centre in Johannesburg and tour the Apartheid Museum.
The six-day trip will also take the first lady to Cape Town and the Botswana capital Gaborone.
Obama has a packed schedule that includes a safari in Botswana, a meeting with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu in Cape Town as well as a trip to the Hector Pieterson memorial.
She will also give the keynote address at a conference of the Young African Women Leaders Forum, a two-day meeting of 75 women aged 16 to 30 who play leadership roles across the continent.
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