Did Nelson Mandela have an illegitimate daughter?

Nelson Mandela, the former South African president, may have fathered an illegitimate daughter following a brief affair with a woman he met in Cape Town, in 1945, his foundation has admitted. Mpho Pule spent almost 12 years battling to see the man she believed was her father but died just a month before his office wrote to say that they were close to confirming her claim. Now her children are continuing her fight to be recognized as the seventh child fathered by the former apartheid-era militant. Pule, a former bakery worker and mother of six from a township near the Free State city of Bloemfontein, is said to have found out who her father was from her grandmother in 1998. She told her that Nelson Mandela had conducted a brief affair with her mother Seipati Jane Monakali in Cape Town in 1945 by which time he had been married to his first wife, Evelyn, for a year and already had a son. Monakali died in 1992 without revealing her secret. Pule is reported to have repeatedly contacted the foundation in the hope of meeting her father. Her calls and letters went unanswered until October 2010, when the foundation wrote saying it had verified the information she had sent them and asked her to contact them. Unfortunately, Pule had died of a stroke a month earlier.