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    12 million children wish Mandela 'Happy Birthday'

    JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Millions of children around the country are singing 'Happy Birthday' to former South African President Nelson Mandela, to celebrate his 93rd birthday.

    More than 12 million school pupils sang a special version of the song, written for the anti-apartheid leader, before lessons began Monday.

    Mandela Day, inaugurated in 2009 and falling on the anti-apartheid icon's July 18 birthday, was conceived as an international day devoted to public service.

    People around the world have been asked to mark the occasion by devoting 67 minutes of their time to work in their local community — one minute for every year of Mandela's public service.

    Mandela is expected to spend the day with his family in his home village of Qunu in southern South Africa.

     

    13 comments

    • nondescript  •  10 mths ago
      what a waste of a great country, the non assailable truth is that the only chance that S Africa ever had was with white governance, not trendy for sure, but absolutely necessary. Media will never produce a then and now comparison for political correctness reasons, but regardless, who would watch it...
      • Aaron 10 mths ago
        I bet you also trash talk Mother Teresa.
      • Wahed 10 mths ago
        As a permanent resident of this beautiful contry, I would have to agree with, Nonescript, 17 years down the line of democracy, this country has gone down the drain, and the very people that are supposed to be liberated are living in still the harshed conditions and instead of only being oppressed, they are slaughtered by their own people, for nothing more than a few cents. This will become another Somalia.
      • sjambok 10 mths ago
        Smart choice ... Mother Teresa and a terrorist in the same breath.
    • Charles  •  10 mths ago
      happy Birthday To President Nelson Mandala
    • THORS HAMMER  •  10 mths ago
      Happy Birthday, Mr Mandela, may you live a long time. Please help the young ones in your country understand that living together without prejudice is the future and the best course for South Africa.
    • WHITEASRICE  •  10 mths ago
      Yea Happy Birthday Bonzo.
    • David D  •  10 mths ago
      And all of them are Black, infected with AIDS and are poor because the terrorist Mandela has ruined another economy the white man made. Africa is a lost cause as long as blacks are in charge. Thye are greedy, disease ridden cockroaches who should have died off in the last ice age.
      • JJ 10 mths ago
        Hmm even though your earliest ancestors were black....interesting.
      • terry 10 mths ago
        @david. Africa has been fuk'd up ever since whitey took his satanic, THIEVING, destructive azz over they're. AIDS was brought over in a little package with those white, born and raised in the Caucus Mountains, evil wicked children of the devil. There will be a celebration when My GOD returns and kick satan in his flat azz ( yes that's where whites got their flat azzez and fuk'd up bodies). To hell from whence you came ignoramus. You're probably dying of AIDS as we speak, but the comments you made won't help you fell better just more bitter. You and your people should've died off in the fuk'n ice age instead you all scattered like the roaches and rodents that you are to get heat and a whole lot of other things from AFRICA. Pick up a few history books-oh never mind those are filled with lies too! Everything you white devils stole, GOD is going to smash it to hell. HEAVEN IS OURS (PPL OF COLOR). We got next BITCH.
    • YahooUser  •  10 mths ago
      Happy Birthday!
    • Ousmane Kere  •  10 mths ago
      Nze, Papa Mandela, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! WHAT AN ICON OF INSPIRTION! FROM PERSPIRATION TO INSPIRATION! GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO HUMANKIND!
    • Sierra S  •  10 mths ago
      Happy Birthday! You're beyond inspiring!
    • Elizabeth Amadieh  •  10 mths ago
      a big happy birthday to the lion of african god bless you africans are proud of you
    • chika  •  10 mths ago
      Happy birthday to you HE Nelson mandela .
    • daddy  •  10 mths ago
      All these hateful comments only show how ignorant,intolerant, uneducated Americans are. What a shame if the rest of the world saw how disrespectful today Americans are.you might not share the same ideas as MR Mandela, but you have to acknowledge Mandela is considered a hero for the rest of the world. Please read a book about Mandela before typing hateful comments on him.
    • David D  •  10 mths ago
      Please Die soon, you terrorist, racist!!!! I hope you and your family are slaughtered by rampaging chimpanzes
      • Aaron 10 mths ago
        You don't ever get laid, do you?
    • Behailu  •  10 mths ago
      happy birthday mr Mandela, i love you
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