Today, South Africans celebrated Nelson Mandela’s 87th birthday by lighting a special torch in his apartheid prison cell as part of a new nationwide drive to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. The torch was lit just after midnight on Robben Island, the former apartheid prison off Cape Town where Mandela spent almost two decades for seeking to end white rule and bring democracy to his country.
Click here to read birthday greetings that were submitted to the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s message board on the occasion of his 84th birthday. Because, they all remain as relevant today as when they were originally expressed….
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