Washington, February 28 (RHC)-- In the U.S., former Vice President Joe Biden's presidential campaign team has admitted that then-Senator Biden was not arrested in South Africa during a congressional delegation trip in the 1970s, as Biden falsely claimed from the campaign trail at least three times this month. 

Biden first made the claim in 2013, saying he “had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto” as they tried to reach Mandela in his prison on Robben Island.  Robben Island is over 750 miles from the township of Soweto.

Biden’s campaign now says he was separated from his Black colleagues at the airport in Johannesburg, never placed under arrest and was not trying to visit the imprisioned Mandela.