US Seeks to Extradite Mandela’s Son-in-Law

The U.S. has filed an extradition request for Isaac Kwame Amuah, Nelson Mandela’s son in-law, with the South African government. Amuah was charged in 1994 with raping a 34-year-old student; later that year, a Connecticut judge allowed him to spend Chrismas in South Africa with his family, on the condition that he would return to the U.S. to stand trial. Amuah never returned, and the U.S. authorities later learned that he had accepted a job with a state-run foundation in Pretoria two months earlier.

Amuah insists that he is innocent, claiming that the woman only only charged him with rape in order to extort money from his family.