Man flies mini-chopper over Mandela hospital

A DOZEN police officers apprehended a man who yesterday flew a radiocontrolled mini-helicopter over the Pretoria hospital where Nelson Mandela is being treated.

The multicopter, which has four arms around a central control unit, had a rotating camera.

It was in the sky for a few minutes.

As soon as it landed in the hands of one of the controllers, police rushed in presidents of their countries.

Air Force One left Senegal’s coastal capital, Dakar, just before 1pm yesterday. No public events were planned for after his arrival in South Africa last night. “When we get there, we’ll gauge the situation,” Obama said of any potential plans to visit Madiba.

Obama is also scheduled to visit Robben Island after his arrival in Cape Town tomorrow. His last stop will be Tanzania.

Obama’s only previous visit to the African continent was a one-day stopover in Ghana at the beginning of his first term.

While acknowledging that to apprehend him.

Hundreds of people mobbed the officers as they escorted the man and his helicopter into the hospital. Minutes later, police officers returned and took the gadget’s remote control from another man.

The helicopter apparently belonged to FC Hamman Films, a private film company. It was not clear what the police did with the man or the helicopter. – Sapa Obama had not spent as much time in Africa as people had hoped, the White House is eager to highlight what it has done, in part to end unflattering comparisons to accomplishments of predecessors George W Bush and Bill Clinton.

“Given the budget constraints, for us to try to get the kind of money that President Bush was able to get out of the Republican House for massively scaled new foreign aid programmes is very difficult,” Obama said.

Obama and the Republicancontrolled House of Representatives have fought a protracted battle over government spend-