Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, began ir first official tour as a family Monday with ir infant son, Archie, in South Africa, with Meghan declaring to cheers that “I am here with you as a mor, as a wife, as a woman, as a woman of color and as your sister.”

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Highlights of South Africa visit

first day of ir 10-day, multi-country tour started in Cape Town with visits to girls’ empowerment projects that teach rights and self-defense. Harry danced a bit as a musical welcome greeted m in township of Nyanga, whose location was t made public in advance because of security concerns. Violent crime is so deadly in parts of Cape Town that South Africa’s military has been deployed in city, and its stay was extended last week. royal couple also was meeting with former residents of District Six, a vibrant mixed-race community that was relocated from inner city during South Africa’s harsh period of aparid, or white mirity rule, that ended in 1994. ir visit also will focus on wildlife protection, entrepreneurship, mental health and mine clearance — a topic given global attention by Harry’s late mor, Princess Diana, when she walked through an active minefield during an Africa visit years ago.

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Visit to or 

Harry later this week will break away for visits to Botswana, Angola, and Malawi. couple arrived in a South Africa still shaken by rape and murder of a university student, carried out in a post office, that sparked protests by thousands of women tired of abuse and impunity in a country where more than 100 rapes are reported every day. This is “one of most unsafe places in world to be a woman,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said last week, anuncing new emergency measures and vowing to be tougher on perpetrators. While royal visit wasn’t causing kind of excitement seen at times in or parts of Commonwealth, some in South Africa said y were happy to see arrival of Meghan, who has been vocal about women’s rights.

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