Mandela Used A Fake Ethiopian Passport To Travel The World By Kevin Mwanza Published: December 9, 2013, 03:59am Printgoogletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1368740405896-0'); www.shegermedia.net Nelson Mandela used a fake Ethiopian passport to travel the world and drum up support for the anti-apartheid movement. The passport was issued in 1962, under the false name David Motsamayi, which he used to travel to across Africa and Europe.Upon his return to South Africa he was arrested and charged for this trip. During his time in Ethiopia it is believed he received military training from the Holeta Military Academy, Sherger Media reported.“Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting [it] attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England and America combined,” Mandela said.“I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Meeting the emperor himself would be like shaking hands with history.”Mandela was later formally issued with his first legal South African passport eight days after his release from prison in 1990.It was this passport, with his second name “Rolihlahla” spelt incorrectly as “Rolilahla”, that he used to embark on a tour of some of the African states that had supported the South African liberation struggle, including Zambia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.Somalia is also said to have provided passports to the African National Congress members during the fight against the apartheid government . Current South African President Jacob Zuma had a Somali passport.
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