Johannesburg - The one-year-old Malawian boy Madonna hopes to adopt was seen in South Africa, boarding a flight to London on Monday, a newspaper photographer said.
Neo Ntsoma, a photographer at Johannesburg's Star newspaper, told reporters she recognised the boy, David Banda, from pictures in the media but bodyguards blocked her taking images of him.
"I saw white people with a black baby.
I thought these people might be the ones we were waiting for. When they reacted I was convinced," Ntsoma said Reuters. "They went through the boarding gate.
The flight was going to London," she said, adding this happened at around 7.15pm in Johannesburg.
Madonna's publicist said on Monday that the pop star had been granted temporary custody of the child.
Earlier, a small private jet whisked the boy from Lilongwe in Malawi. An airport official in Malawi said the plane was registered in South Africa and probably headed back to that country.
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