Joe Biden: "arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see [Nelson Mandela..."

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arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see [Nelson Mandela] on Robben Island

Joe Biden · A campaign statement · 2020 · Race: President of the United States

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Pants on Fire

PolitiFact, March 4, 2020 · read the check

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The record does not settle it

Checked against No published record settles this sentence: an arrest abroad in the 1970s would be in South African police records, which are not published, and no U.S. agency record of one was found.

The record: Office of the Historian

Context

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Topics: Biography.

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Sources

Joe Biden said he was arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela. Pants on Fire. · PolitiFact · 2020-03-04 · accessed 2026-09-18
Office of the Historian · U.S. Department of State · accessed 2026-10-15

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