South Africa on Wednesday marked 100 years since Nelson Mandela ’s birth with a “ town hall ” forum hosted by Barack Obama and a walk led by the anti - apartheid leader ’s widow among a series of tributes .

His birthday on July 18 is marked annually around the world as “ Mandela Day ” , and the Nelson Mandela Foundation called for people to “ take action and inspire change ” in his name on the centenary year . Obama, speaking to 15 , 000 people at a stadium in Johannesburg on Tuesday , gave an emotional address recalling the “ wave of hope that washed through hearts all around
the world” when Mandela was released from jail in 1990 .

“ Through his sacrifice and unwavering leadership and , perhaps most of all , through his moral example , Mandela … came to embody
the universal aspirations of dispossessed people,” Obama said . “( He ) shows those of us who believe in freedom and democracy we are going to have to fight harder .”

Source:https://www.infonewsnigeria.com/discussion/2003/100-years-since-his-birth-south-africa-pays-tribute-to-mandela?new=1

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