SOUTH AFRICA OBSERVES NELSON MANDELA DAY

MANDELA DAY – 18 JULY 2009

                                   

 

“ I ask all humanity now to rise up.” — Nelson Mandela

 

·          1994 – 1998 - NELSON MANDELA WAS SOUTH AFRICA’S FIRST DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT

 

·          27 YEARS - PREVIOUS TO THIS HE HAD SPENT 27 YEARS OF HIS LIFE IN PRISON FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHTS OF ALL SOUTH AFRICAN PEOPLE, TO LIVE AS ONE COUNTRY, UNITED IN DIVERSITY.

 

·          91 -  NELSON MANDELA WILL TURN 91 ON 18 JULY 2009.

 

·          18 JULY 2009 - THIS YEAR PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA, DURING HIS ADDRESS TO THE NATION ANNOUNCED THAT 18 JULY (NELSON MANDELA’S 91ST BIRTHDAY) WOULD FROM NOW ON BE CELEBRATED AS “OFFICIAL MANDELA DAY ”.

 

·          67 MINUTES - DURING THIS DAY PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE ENCOURAGED TO SPEND “67 MINUTES” OF THEIR TIME GIVING SOMETHING BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITIES. THIS CAN BE TIME SPENT WITH AN ORGANIZATION, CHARITY, ETC.

 

·          67 YEARS - IT IS SYMBOLIC THAT 67 MINUTES HAVE BEEN HIGHLIGHTED AS THIS SIGNIFIES THE 67 YEARS (SO FAR) THAT NELSON MANDELA HAS DEFENDED HUMAN RIGHTS, DIGNITY AND FREEDOM FOR NOT ONLY SOUTH AFRICANS BUT ALL PEOPLES OF THE WORLD.

 

·          2009 - STARTING FROM THIS YEAR, LET US ALL TAKE SOME TIME TO DO OUR PART IN IMPROVING OUR WORLD.

 

·          LET’S CELEBRATE HUMANITY AND MAKE OUR IMPRINT ON MANDELA DAY!

 

MAKE AN IMPRINT

 

 

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