Amb. Welile Nhlapo

Honorary President

Board of Advisors

  Welile Nhlapo assumed the post as South African ambassador to the United States on Aug. 14 2007. Ambassador Nhlapo was director in the department of political affairs (Africa Division 1) at the United Nation’s headquarters in New York.
 

  Ambassador Nhlapo currently serves as the chairman of the board of the Nelson Mandela’s Children Fund in the United States of America. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is married to Sissy Nhlapo; they have three children.