ACCORDING to the Washington Post, on 11 February 2020, President-elect of the United States Joe Biden said that he was arrested while trying to see Nelson Mandela.
Biden has introduced the supposed “arrest” multiple times recently as he’s campaigned, despite never having mentioned it in his memoirs or producing any record of it.
At least one other official involved in his trips, former Ambassador Andrew Young, has said publicly that he doesn’t know what the former vice president might have been referencing.
“This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid. I had the great honour of meeting him. I had the great honour of being arrested with our UN ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robbens Island.”
On a second occasion, Biden reportedly said the following:
“After he [Mandela] got free and became president,
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