The UN today, July 18 marks the one hundred years since the birth of the late anti-Apartheid activist, Nelson Mandela while taking stock of what the organisation termed his vast legacy for mankind.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres in his video message for Nelson Mandela International Day said: “Nelson Mandela was a towering global advocate for justice and equality.”
The Day inaugurated in 2009 by the UN General Assembly is observed annually on July 18, in recognition of Mandela’s global contribution to the culture of peace and freedom.
Mandela, who died in 2013, was the first democratically-elected president of South Africa and the country’s first black head of State after he had been in prison for 27 years on charges of sabotage before being released and eventually elected president.
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