JOHANNESBURG (AP)—Nelson Mandela reminisced with fellow anti-apartheid activists and met with top football officials May 6, one month ahead of South Africa’s upcoming World Cup, which he helped bring to Africa for the first time.

SOLID GOLD— Nelson Mandela smiles as he holds the FIFA World Cup trophy, at the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 6.

The 91-year-old former president, who retired from public life in 2004, met with FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke and chief local organizer Danny Jordaan, who brought the 18-carat, solid gold World Cup trophy to the Nelson Mandela Foundation building in Johannesburg. The meeting was held in private, with no journalists present, though FIFA later released photographs.

JOHANNESBURG (AP)—South African police have confiscated a large cache of weapons and arrested suspects linked to right-wing groups, the police ministry said May 6.

Zweli Mnisi, a spokesman for Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, told The AP that police acting on tips raided sites in the capital and a western town and found large caches of explosives, illegal guns and ammunition. He said there was a “strong linkage to right-wing operations.”

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP)—South Africa’s police commissioner says he hopes the United States is knocked out of the World Cup in the first round to avoid the massive security challenge of a visit by President Barack Obama.

General Bheki Cele told parliament in Cape Town May 7 it was “50-50” whether Obama would visit Africa’s first World Cup, but they had been told that if the U.S. team makes the knockout stages Obama might jet in.

by Sylvia Hui

LONDON (AP) – Prime Minister David Cameron's three-day-old administration was criticized by activists, the press and even his new coalition partners Friday for picking an almost entirely White, male and upper-class Cabinet despite pledging that his Conservative party would no longer be an old boys club.