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Harry and Meghan Start 1st Official Tour as Family in Africa

Associated Press

   CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the
   Duchess of Sussex, began their first official tour as a family Monday
   with their infant son, Archie, in South Africa, with Meghan declaring
   to cheers that "I am here with you as a mother, as a wife, as a woman,
   as a woman of color and as your sister."

   The first day of their 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 them in
   the township of Nyanga, whose location was not 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 the city, and its stay was extended last
   week.
   The royal couple also was meeting with former residents of District
   Six, a vibrant mixed-race community that was relocated from the inner
   city during South Africa's harsh period of apartheid, or white minority
   rule, that ended in 1994.

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