Buenos Aires - Argentina has handed Nelson Mandela's eldest daughter, Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, credentials as South Africa's ambassador to Buenos Aires, the foreign ministry said on Monday.
"The Argentine government has given diplomatic credentials to Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, as new ambassador of the Republic of South Africa to Argentina," a ministry statement said.
Mandela-Dlamini, 53, is a businesswoman and the first of anti-apartheid hero Mandela's surviving children to go into public life.
She is a daughter of Mandela, 93, and his second wife Winnie Mandela.
Bilateral trade between South Africa and Argentina is worth about $1.3bn.
Mandela-Dlamini will replace Tony Leon who, according to the
Sunday Independent, requested to return home ahead of his scheduled 2013 return.
AFP
