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JOHANNESBURG: South Africa on a Wednesday marked 100 years since Nelson Mandela's birth, with Barack Obama hosting a youth leadership project as Archbishop Desmond Tutu led an emotional tribute to the late anti-apartheid icon. [19659003] Mandela's birthday on July 18 in Nelson Mandela Foundation for the sake of "take action and inspire change"
In Johannesburg, Obama told 200 young people attending a leadership race that he had set up, how Mandela had a key inspiration in his life.
"Most people around the world think of Mandela as an older man, with hair like mine," he joked. [19659003] "What people of the race do not remember that he started to be a young man – your age – trying to liberate his country.He then inspired me."
Obama on Tuesday delivered the centerpiece of the celebrations to a crowd of 15,000 a Cricket stadium, remembering the "wave of hope in the world" when it was released in 1990.
"Through his sacrifice and unwavering leadership, Mandela …
Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, 86, recalled fond memories of his fellow student against the Nobel Peace Prize winner. "The most extraordinary thing about Nelson Mandela was his ordinariness. He was just a particularly fine example of humanity, "Tutu said in a video message.
" The principles on which he led his life are universal principles of love, fairness and respect of others built on the understanding of the vulnerabilities that we all share. "
Tutu recollected Mandela's willingness to apologize when wrong, and laughed as he remembered that the two used to wear each other over Mandela's famous colorful shirts and Tutu's purple clerical dresses.
Village birthplace
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, a protege of Mandela who took office this year, said he would mark "Mandela 100" by donating half his salary to charity and call for others to the same.
Ramaphosa spent the day in Mvezo village in Eastern Cape province, Mandela's birthplace, at celebrations of the opening of a clinic, a tree planting ceremony, and distributions of blankets to the elderly.
Graca Machel, Mandela's widow, the Mandela's legacy, while the centenary was marked with the release of a commemorative bank note.
Among a series of exhibitions, music festivals and sports events worldwide, a memorial London, Westminster Abbey
Machel said that the array of events were to "engage everyone who feels they identified with Mandela's values."
Delivering the Mandela Annual Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, Obama warned the world of the world in the face of "strange and uncertain times", in a speech containing a series of apparent veiled attacks on the US President Donald Trump.
Obama made no reference to his successor but warned that "politics of fear and resentment" were born in the United States of America (19659003) The former US president puts Mandela only briefly in 2005 but gave a eulogy at his funeral, ha
Mandela was imprisoned under apartheid rule in 1962 and only freed in 1990, when he went on to lead the African National Congress party to victory in the first multi-race elections in 1994.
He died in 2013. He died in 2013.
The year commemorating Mandela's birth will be in a concert in Beyonce, Jay-Z, Ed Sheeran Pharrell Williams and Cbadper Nyovest
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