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    A Guide to Celebrating Nelson Mandela's 93rd Birthday

    A Guide to Celebrating Nelson Mandela's 93rd Birthday

    Today is former South African president Nelson Mandela's 93rd birthday. According to The Associated Press, Mandela--who has been the subject of health scares since stepping away from public life in 2004--is "expected to spend the day with his family in his home village of Qunu, approximately 600 miles (965km) south of Johannesburg," where he's expected to be joined later by South African president Jacob Zuma. Here at The Atlantic Wire, we've compiled a guide to the most striking tributes to Mandela to emerge today.

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    • Look: The Mandela family has released a new official photograph of the leader to the AP.

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    • Read: The 2009 United Nations resolution naming July 18 (today) International Nelson Mandela Day.
    • Read: Also from the UN web site: the transcripts of Mandela's 1962 trial, including his opening statements.
    • Watch: Reuters provided video of some of the 12 million schoolchildren across South Africa who sang a rewritten version of Happy Birthday to Mandela prior to the start of lessons today.



     

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    • Watch: The Charlie Rose Show tweeted out a link to Rose's 1993 interview with Mandela following South Africa's first round of open elections.


     

    • Read: The Huffington Post's interview with Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town, in which he recalls battling apartheid alongside Mandela.  
    • Watch: Morgan Freeman explains the origins of the day of service to Piers Morgan.



     

    • Read: The official web site of the city of Johannesburg had a thorough list of the public improvement projects undertaken today.
    • Read: President Obama's official statement on Mandela Day, courtesy of the White House. 
    • Watch: CNN had a fascinating report on one specific Mandela Day tribute, carried out by a "multiracial, multilingual group" of South African motorcyclists.



     

     

    10 comments

    • Reader  •  10 mths ago
      I suggest you research who he is and what he did. In regards to celebrating his birthday - DON'T.
    • Nancy  •  10 mths ago
      Who ever is thinking of "celebrating" the fact that this man is still living had better spend some time reading his (and Winnie's) track record.
      "Leader" indeed!... All sheep need leaders to take them over the cliff and to their demise.!!!!
    • D  •  10 mths ago
      How much money belonging to the american taxpayers did Obama give him for his birthday??
    • hx  •  10 mths ago
      The people benefited from his actions should celebrate his birthday. The rest (most of the world) doesn't need to, shouldn't.
    • V.I.T.R.I.O.L.  •  10 mths ago
      Admit to being a terrorist, refuse to renounce violence, murder women and children, win the Nobel Peace Prize. Even Amnesty International wouldn't touch him.
    • Kay  •  10 mths ago
      You whiteys have a lot of hatred in your hearts,you gonna burn burn burn in hell when your times up.
      • hx 10 mths ago
        You blackies need to stop crying racism. Channel that energy to saving black Africans being slaughtered and raped in your ancestral continent. Them black rulers over there aren't racists but devil.
      • Red 10 mths ago
        if you think it's a picnic over there.....why don't you go....and when you get back tell us about the garden of eden that you found.....
      • Nancy 10 mths ago
        Quit with the "BLACK WHITE" balony!..... PEOPLE.. start standing together and open your eyes so that you can SEE who the enemy really is~!
        ..
        Your enemy in this world WANTS you to fight between yourselves.. that way they can "feed" on the energy and continue to do what they have been doing to you and you won't notice.
        Wake up human race and GET OFF YOUR KNEES.
    • benjamin63_99  •  10 mths ago
      "A Guide to Celebrating Nelson Mandela's 93rd Birthday"

      Form a mob, accuse a little old boy of being a snitch, put a gasoline-soaked tire over his head, then set him on fire! Then trash the house Ghandi lived in while he was studying to become a lawyer!

      For those of you, like the useful idiots at The Atlantic, who have very short-term memories, those are two of the many horrors Mandela's supporters committed to try to pressure the government to set that SOB free!
      • Nancy 10 mths ago
        Brainwashed... or a troll.
    • hellonwheels  •  10 mths ago
      Yes, lets celebrate the fact he ran the country right down into the toilet. They must be proud to be a third world nation now.
    • Thursday N  •  10 mths ago
      I wonder how much fried chicken, chitlins, collard greens, and watermelon was eaten at his bash.
    • hollander-karas  •  10 mths ago
      SO HE'S 93- WHO CARES!
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